The outsourced services contract serves a critical function for an impressive mass social welfare initiative launching in 4Q13 and could eventually encompass as many as 650 million living in poverty in Africa. The National Mass Social Welfare Scheme …

PEOPLE struggling with debt in outwardly affluent Stratford should not be embarrassed to ask for help. So says Sue Green, manager of the town's Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), which has seen an … "Our service is free, confidential and entirely non …

That Tesla's luxury electric vehicle — the Model S sedan — has become popular with the affluent and the environmentally conscious is clear from the numbers. The company sold 5,150 of the cars in the second quarter, … next-generation Tesla vehicle …

In 2007, the same year the now retired U Than Shwe sought treatment in Singapore, Myanmar's former military junta spent less than $1 per person on health care, according to statistics from the Health Ministry. Six years later under the country's new …

China's affluent shoppers have average annual earnings of between $19,500 and $90,000 and are expected to be the driver for the future growth of luxury markets, according to Exane BNP Paribas, an equity research firm. "A strong middle-class is one of …

A BUS service that takes some of the least affluent children in East Dorset to school is under threat. The 844 school service, which serves the Heatherlands estate in Ferndown, may stop running after a proposal by Dorset County Council to remove the …

With the self-protecting, self-serving attitudes of the affluent in full sway in recent decades, nonprofits have to realize that an anti-poverty agenda will be smothered in lip service and squashed somewhere between the White House and Congress. It …

The search for fame is becoming a commodity in itself. TLC's latest reality entry, "Raising Fame," features mothers who will do anything to help their daughters get famous. Like signing up for a reality show, perhaps? Hoping to be the next Kardashians …

Many of them wind up in Clearwater, drawn by the same balmy climate, world-class beach, numerous parks and other amenities that also attract more affluent visitors. And a sizable number of them … Last year, the City Council approved Marbut's …