Costa Rica will begin using the multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) developed by the English university in the hope of more effectively leveraging the country’s social assistance programs to tackle extreme poverty.
SEATTLE, Washington – The world’s largest private charity – established by the richest but arguably the most generous man in U.S. history – is pouring billions of dollars into improving health care in Central America and throughout the developing world.
Costa Rica could reduce its poverty rate by 8.5 percent if all employers paid the legal minimum wage and poor families could find work, according to a new report from the United Nations Development Program released Monday.
