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Number of poor Africans on rise in tandem with population

BusinessApril 02, 2016

Never give up. First-time author Shemi provides a story of hope, faith and incredible courage. Courtesy Titoni Thomas

UAE Portrait of a Nation: Dubai resident’s inspiring tale gives reason to keep faith

UAEMarch 24, 2016

Syrian refugees Omar Al Naji and his son Abdullah, 10, in the minimarket they work at in the town of Khalde, south of Beirut. Abdullah wants to be a doctor or engineer when he grows up, but he cannot read or write and has never been to school. Mr Naji hopes to escape with his family to Europe when winter ends. Josh Wood for The National

Faced with mounting debts, Syrian refugees have no way of leaving Lebanon

WorldJanuary 10, 2016

On the one hand, poverty is staggering in India, while on the other, most popular temples house trillions of dollars worth of donations from devotees. Pal Pillai / AFP

In India, taking on poverty needs new thinking

OpinionJanuary 04, 2016

The women’s majlis: A child’s vision is not necessarily childish

December 31, 2015

A woman cleans a tomb outside her home in the Cairo Necropolis, known as the City of the Dead, on October 23, 2015. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters

Why some Egyptians consider themselves lucky to live in this Cairo graveyard

WorldDecember 30, 2015

Bare hanging light bulb in studio

Renewables light path to world without poverty

BusinessOctober 26, 2015

Basing it on the number of people living on less than $1 (Dh3.7) a day put an excessive focus on tradable goods, argues Prof Angus Deaton, a Nobel laureate. Sanjit Das / Bloomberg News

Recognising the cycle of poverty

OpinionOctober 13, 2015

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, at the launch of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiative in Dubai. Photo courtesy Dubai Media Office

Real solutions to address global issues

OpinionOctober 05, 2015

Ethiopia is on track to meet all its Millenium Development Goals. (Tiksa Negeri / Reuters)

We should work together to eradicate extreme poverty

OpinionSeptember 24, 2015

Barack Obama, who was elected president partly because he was no George W Bush and seemed unlikely to lead the country into indefensible wars, has not been immune from the American disease of militarism. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

America is still hamstrung by insularity and ignorance

OpinionSeptember 16, 2015

Silkworms have changed the lives of India’s tribal villagers, bringing new wealth to the people who are rearing silkworms to make silk. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP Photo

How India’s tribal communities are spinning their way out of poverty

WorldAugust 31, 2015

A child scavenges on the Anlong Pi rubbish dump, Siem Reap, Cambodia – a country where a third of the population lives in extreme poverty, on less than US$1 a day. Omar Havana / Getty Images

Where does poverty begin - and end?

WorldAugust 11, 2015

An employee stocks shelves at a farmers' food store in Moscow. Some Russian farmers and retailers have thrived thanks to the Kremlin’s ban on Western food, seizing the market niche previously occupied by imports. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo

Outrage as Russia burns piles of illegally imported Western food

WorldAugust 06, 2015

Farzad Bayat, Nancy Saade and John Sammon while filming A Place Called Home. Courtesy Farzad Bayat, Saluki Media

Documentary reveals ‘full spectrum of expatriate life in UAE’

UAEJune 02, 2015

Ethnic Rohingya women and children sleep under a mosquito net at a temporary shelter in Langsa, Aceh province in Indonesia on May 17, 2015. Boats filled with more than 2,000 Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants have landed in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, and thousands more migrants are believed to be adrift at sea after a crackdown on human traffickers prompted smugglers to abandon their human cargo. Binsar Bakkara/AP Photo

South East Asia leaders to meet amid escalating migrant crisis

AsiaMay 17, 2015

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