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The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Labour’s reforms to benefits aim to reduce economic inactivity and encourage work, but critics warn they could push vulnerable people further into poverty

Nigeria has abundant human and natural resources but remains mired in underdevelopment. There are high levels of poverty, corruption, unemployment and inequality. The country is currently witnessing a rise in ethnic militias and terrorism, adding to the threats posed by armed herdsmen’s deadly clashes with rural communities over land.

Many MPs will feel that pushing people in to poverty to balance the books is not what they came into politics to do

Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare intervention

New sentencing guidelines for England and Wales address gender and ethnicity but ignore poverty

In the Greek city of Ioannina, the CommonEn energy community provides a sustainable, renewable-powered solution to energy poverty.

Campaigners urge Ofgem to refund UK households after energy network companies ‘profit from high inflation’

OKAY, Starmer, what have you got for us today? The benefits system is the “worst of all worlds”?

Kevin Fagan, who spent decades at the San Francisco Chronicle, argues in a new book that ‘atrociously unforgivable’ US poverty must be addressed

Myanmar has struggled with civil war, military rule and widespread poverty for much of the past seven decades. But the country’s youth have never faced threats to their survival and future as severe as today.