9 July 2019 - In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a wealth of action had ...
The poverty–environment nexus embodies the reciprocal relationship whereby deprivation fuels environmental degradation and declining ecosystems exacerbate human vulnerability. Poverty often compels ...
“A Different Shade of Green: Race, Place and Environmental Justice,” organized by visiting professor Kimberly Smith, focused on the disproportionate effect of environmental problems on poorer and ...
Perhaps the strongest message to emerge from Villanova University's April 18 Second Annual Anti-Poverty Symposium — "Unitas in Action: Fighting Poverty and Living Sustainably" — is that the ...
For the 31st year in a row, the Heritage Foundation has published the Index of Economic Freedom, otherwise known as the “capitalism ranking.” Contrary to the assertions of anti-capitalists, this study ...
Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...
As the global community pushes toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), two of the most interlinked yet under-addressed challenges—poverty and environmental ...
As we approach Earth Day this Tuesday, it’s tempting to believe that the world is on the brink of environmental collapse. We are constantly inundated by dire predictions of climate catastrophe and ...
The study of concentrated poverty and its effects on kids and social mobility has been a sociological topic for a long time, but new research published in Science Advances is among the first to ...