Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private ...

Most accounts of African politics begin with corruption, weak institutions and failed governance. Poverty is not a backdrop. It is the terrain on which politics is built and contested. Where the state ...

Machlyn Blair, a 21-year-old from eastern Kentucky, shares his thoughts about growing up in poverty and preparing to join the working poor. Poverty Is About Real People, Not Politics All my life, when ...

Over the past few decades, the Chinese government has lifted more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty, an achievement that international institutions have described as the greatest poverty ...