The United Nations predicts 340 million women and girls will be living in extreme poverty by 2030, but we can change this.
We hear a lot about the negative impact of rate rises on mortgage repayments, while little is made of the benefits of high interest rates.
Micro loans promised war-affected Sri Lankan and Cambodian women a way out of poverty as they rebuilt their lives. Instead, the loans trapped them in debt.
Sharman Stone has worked to advance the rights of women for more than 20 years, in Parliament and as Ambassador for Women and Girls, but her work isn't finished yet.
Approximately 40 million people worldwide are enslaved in some way. And if you think your hands are clean, you’re wrong.
Can Indonesia solve the problems of overcrowded Jakarta by building a new capital on the island of Borneo?
Drawing on her financial expertise, Kimberley Cole seeks to ruin the economics of the modern slave trade.
The credit debt trap is a honey pot for financial institutions, and that becomes a problem mostly for the poor, says John Vaz.
This time the pressure is particularly intense, given that the Turnbull government has trailed Labor in the past 31 Newspolls.
The programs to date have delivered, at best, only modest results in the fight against poverty.
The government needs to learn from the mistakes in the US in sharing our credit history information to third parties
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