KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

What you need to know: In most cases, the issue is not only the deeply entrenched social norms and discrimination but rather lack of clear information about the rights that women and girls can ...

You need money to make money. We have all heard this before, but what are people living in extreme poverty supposed to do with that? How do they make it out of poverty? That is the problem for almost ...

One method of combating extreme poverty is providing cash grants to allow people to start businesses. We go to Uganda to take a look at one such... Innovating Ways to Address Poverty in Uganda One ...

KAMPALA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Uganda's sustained economic growth has reduced the number of people in poverty by 15 percent in four years, according to the state-run National Bureau of Statistics. A 2009 ...

Kampala — Poverty will be greatly reduced by the year 2015, President Yoweri Museveni has promised. Speaking at the closure of the third World Scouts Inter-religious Symposium at Kaazi camping site on ...