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Fourteen-year-old Cristian competes with stray dogs, scavenging birds and hundreds of other trash-pickers for food at a Honduran dump, but when the army offers...
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Poverty in Germany has risen to its highest level since reunification in 1990, with the gap between rich and poor in Europe’s top economy...
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The town of Palic in northern Serbia is grappling with an exodus of impoverished Kosovo Albanians who are using the small summer resort as...
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The Philippines government came under fire Friday after admitting that hundreds of homeless people were taken off Manila’s streets and put into luxury accommodation...
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The lives of the poor will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any time in history, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and...
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Wealth accumulated by the richest one percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent in 2016, the Oxfam charity said Monday, ahead of...
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While 2014 seemed to be the year that finally threw off the final chains of the Great Recession, with the U.S. seeing the greatest...
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In the past generation, a mass exodus from poverty has transformed Latin America, the world’s most unequal region, spurred on by innovative welfare programs...
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In Madrid airport’s bustling fourth terminal, Edu’s trolley is loaded with suitcases, but he won’t be checking them in. Unlike the thousands of Christmas...
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Hassan Ibrahim, both physically and mentally disabled, staggers on his weakened legs as he pushes two huge packs of contraband goods loaded on a...