The United Nations development agency has said Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of “ universal

A Taliban soldier guards the Panjshir gate in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, on Sept.... It said the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has put 20 years of steady economic gains at risk.... Wignaraja said Afghanistan now faces" a humanitarian and development disaster" resulting from political instability, frozen foreign reserves, a collapsed public finance system," a crush on local banking because of this," as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic....

It is estimated that 5.5 million low-income families have been affected by the cut to the Universal

University of Oxford, after it emerged that she is the privately educated daughter of a radiologist

PETALING JAYA: Any central agency tasked with tackling poverty and income inequality must be made

overcome poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic. UTeM was placed 81 out of 769 universities worldwide

Charlie Hall and her partnerJohn Gillespiesay they will not be able to heat their house this winter after the ￡20 increase in the benefit is axed in October.... They are both graduates but have struggled to find work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Charlie, 26, told Liverpool Echo:" We haven't got any money to play with as it is, we budget so strictly, we never go out-we don't even have a TV Licence." We are just about hanging on, when this cut comes in I don't know what we will do." We won't be

Afghans have seen their country descend into turmoil and chaos as a result of the Taliban insurgency that led to the downfall of President Ashraf Ghani's government.... Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced internally, forced to abandon their homes by the heavy fighting.... On Monday, the United Nations appealed for almost$ 200 million in extra funding for life-saving aid in Afghanistan. The appeal comes after aid workers were forced to leave the country as the Taliban swept back

replace universal credit with a fairer social security system.” The revelations came as the

Xu Rudong, a farmer in eastern China, thought he had left poverty behind long ago.... Xu is once