The return of extreme poverty
This series explores how the pandemic has reversed decades of progress, allowing extreme poverty to come roaring back around the globe
The number of people in need is frightening – we need a global response
Axel van TrotsenburgWe can rise to the challenge of a green, resilient and inclusive recovery from Covid, says the World Bank’s Axel van Trotsenburg
DRC is rich with farmland, so why do 22 million people there face starvation?
Vava TampaFor two decades the global community has stood by while militia groups have got away with killing, raping and looting
As a poor Ugandan farmer, white and black people ignore my advice on poverty
The mostly white development sector only funds efforts led by more ‘legitimate’ people. We need support from the diaspora
'Fighting for life': Bangladesh shrimp farmers destitute in wake of cyclone
Natural disaster compounded by the collapse of a lucrative export during the pandemic has thrust people into poverty
How Covid could be the 'long overdue' shake-up needed by the aid sector
Four chicken heads a dollar: how one Harare grandmother scratches a living in lockdown
Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty
'Back empty-handed': Bangladeshis cut off from jobs abroad face rising poverty
Decades of progress on extreme poverty now in reverse due to Covid
Analysis: The pandemic, combined with the climate crisis and crippling debt burdens, has led to an ‘unprecedented increase’ in poverty, experts warn
'Savage' cuts to UK aid put children's lives at risk, says Gordon Brown
Former prime minister says chancellor is paying bills for Covid ‘off the backs of the poor’
Rishi Sunak is paying Covid bills off the backs of the poor. It shames our country
Gordon BrownA savage reversal of aid is happening at the very moment people need our help most. MPs must join together to stop it
