As the global community looks for ways to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the share of people in poverty by 2015 from it s 1990 level, it cannot afford to ignore the plight of indigenous...
One of the poorest and most fragile countries in the world due to many years of political instability and conflict, the Central African Republic has more than 80 ethnic groups, most with their own language...
Traditionally, the Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been closely attached to the rain forest, the source of their spirituality, livelihood, and protection. They used to lead a nomadic life...
Mexico's more than 10 million indigenous peoples constitute about 11 percent of the country's population. While accounting for a smaller percentage of the country's total population than in some other...
There are more than 40 ethnic groups in Gabon, but according to the country's 2003 census, the Pygmies account for only 0.1 percent of the population. Among the oldest inhabitants of Central Africa, the...
India is widely considered a success story in terms of growth and poverty reduction. In just over two decades, national poverty rates have fallen by more than 20 percentage points, from 45.6 percent in...
China has 55 official minority groups. Together, they constitute over 8 percent of the population, according to the 2000 census. The term 'minority' is not synonymous with the term 'indigenous': in China...
In addition to the majority Lao-Tai (67 percent of the population), the 5 million residents of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) include three major non-Lao-Tai ethno-linguistic groups: the Mon-Khmer...
Vietnam has invested heavily to improve the welfare of its minority populations, a diverse set of 53 groups dominated by ethnic Tay, Thai, Cambodian, Chinese, Muong, and Hmong populations. Minorities make...