Poverty limits choices. Families cannot afford essential services like education and healthcare. They rely on state provisions, accepting available options regardless of quality. This dependence can ...
"Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realise one's full potential as a human being." This line was written by Amartya Sen, the Indian economist and philosopher, to ...
Mahatma Gandhi's powerful statement emphasises that true spirituality is rooted in addressing hunger and poverty. It shifts ...
A homeless man in San Francisco, California on May 16, 2023, as homelessness rates rise due to the displacement of communities and citizens residing in low-income regions of the city. Poverty in ...
In 2005, Nelson Mandela gave his now famous speech at the Make Poverty History rally in London’s Trafalgar Square, and called on world leaders to make poverty history. Addressing a staggering crowd of ...
What a cruel irony: The president whose policy obsession from Day 1 in the Oval Office has been not to grow the economy but to reduce income inequality has presided over a near-record surge in the ...
India, Feb. 11 -- The quote demonstrates that true wealth exists in inner values, which people should establish as their standard for measuring their success. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates ...
Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves or their loved ones. Absolutely, not their fault in spite of some ...