1,593 Results for:
Filters

July 11, 2011

How Much Is Being Spent on Energy Poverty?

Regular readers of this blog know that I wish that delivering greater access to modern energy services were higher up policymakers’ priority list. In a paper last fall, several coauthors and I estima…

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

January 19, 2012

Economics
Mexico’s 99 Percent: How the Next President Can Reduce Poverty and Inequality

It is campaign season in Mexico, and aside from security issues, front-runners Enrique Peña Nieto of the PRI and Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the PRD are focusing on poverty and inequality. Both cr…

inequality
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment

February 20, 2013

Development
New From CFR: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on Entrepreneurship and Poverty Reduction

In an article in the Huffington Post, CFR fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon highlights the poverty-fighting potential of entrepreneurship, especially among women. As she writes: All around the world, and …

Democratic-Republic-Congo-female-women-entrepreneur-sewing-circle-entrepreneurship-poverty-reduction
Blog Post by Development Channel Staff Development Channel

June 9, 2011

Climate Change
Is Climate Policy Endangering Efforts to Address Energy Poverty?

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of spending a day with people from around the world who are deeply involved in trying to deliver electricity to the nearly two billion people who lack it. I learn…

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

July 24, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Poverty Rate Expected to Reach Highest Level Since 1965

The Associated Press reports that the poverty rate is expected to rise from its 2010 level of 15.1 percent; an increase as small as 0.1 percent would be the highest level since 1965. Joblessness play…

Renewing-America-Poverty-Homeless-Man-20120724
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America