The Rogun Dam is being built in Tajikistan, one of the poorest countries in Asia and the poorest in central Asia. The International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD) puts the country's ...

as reported in their Multidimensional Poverty Index. The disparity is particularly evident in sub-Saharan Africa and some ...

The decline in extreme poverty was largely fueled by the rapid advances in two regions – East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia –specifically in China, Indonesia, and India. In 60 of 83 countries ...

And while some critics have attributed the trend to poor testing regimes ... world’s least impacted countries from a public health perspective”, the Southeast Asia Globe reports.

Child food poverty has reached a critical tipping point globally – and Asia faces some of the most urgent challenges.

19 of the world’s 20 poorest countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with Afghanistan as the only non-African country on the list. Despite being the second-fastest-growing region after Asia ...