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Dioximar Guevara lives with her five children in San Felix, a slum of Puerto Ordaz, the main city in Bolívar, Venezuela, where poverty runs deep.

A taxing problem: how to ensure the poor and vulnerable don’t shoulder the cost of the COVID-19 crisis

12 July 2020

Economic Development

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The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says in November 2018 two in three children in the Central African Republic need humanitarian assistance.

Partnerships key to taking landlocked countries out of poverty: UN Chief

5 December 2019

Economic Development

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A panoramic view outside Kathmandu, Nepal.

From landlocked to land-linked: how the UN is helping some of the world’s poorest countries

4 December 2019

Economic Development

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A woman from a low-income neighbourhood in Brazil, photographed at her window. The 2019 Multidimensional Poverty Index shows vast inequalities within countries.

New UN poverty report reveals ‘vast inequalities’ between countries

11 July 2019

Economic Development

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A woman walks with her child in Niger. 2018.

World population set to grow another 2.2 billion by 2050: UN survey

17 October 2018

Economic Development

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