While teaching at Bangladesh’s University of Chittagong in 1976, Muhammad Yunus interviewed a stool maker named Sufia Begum.1 Because Sufia did not have the 22 cents she needed to buy bamboo, she ...

Helping the poor is a like therapy for Rama Prasad Roy, resident of Dum Dum in the bustling city of Kolkata. A former ...

It has often been said that the world’s aggregate poverty gap—the total monetary amount by which all poor people fall below the poverty line—is modest when one uses poverty lines typical of low-income ...

The answer I have come up with — that people should leave those communities ... that poor families who moved out of poor communities with help from the Department of Housing and Urban ...

Should religious buildings be sold to help the poor and feed the starving? In Christianity, a church is a group of people meeting together to worship God, and that can happen in any building.