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 ...

As a child, Mulumba’s mother was poverty-stricken and unable to take proper care of him, so he was sent off to live with his aunt on the outskirts of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Mulumba said ...

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 ...

Yesterday, protests against soaring costs of living, corruption and poverty erupted in Kampala, Uganda. They were savagely repressed by the US-backed Yoweri Museveni regime, which has ruled the ...

Uganda’s National Forestry Authority (NFA) and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) provided practical training to women and youth in tailoring and metal fabrication. Photo: NFA and UWA When the ...

A program in southwest Uganda aims to address extreme poverty by giving people cash and coaching to help them build a sustainable income. But even the most established programs need to keep evolving.