Work is the fastest and most effective way to get out of poverty and become prosperous. Welfare programs should require those who can work to work or prepare for work as a condition of getting aid.

Paul Polak is helping to create a third genre by writing one of the first how-to social enterprise books: Out of Poverty, which draws on Polak’s 25 years of using entrepreneurial approaches to ...

In contrast, countries such as the Republic of Korea and Taiwan Province of China, which managed to launch their economies into high-growth orbits in the early 1960s, quickly pulled their entire ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

A new study finds that delivering the $15 minimum wage that Biden has tried — and failed — to get through Congress would lift millions of Americans out of poverty. In a paper from the Urban ...

Poverty in Lao PDR declined from 33.5% to 23.2% in the last decade lifting half a million people out of poverty. The country has met the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of halving extreme ...