The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population ...

Extreme poverty in developing countries fell 25% since 1990 and may be further halved so long as economic growth rates in those countries maintain their pace, the World Bank said in an annual report ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

The proportion of Indians living in extreme poverty has plummeted from 27.1 per cent to just 5.3 per cent over the last decade, according to new data released by the World Bank. The international ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A high-level U.N. panel recommended an ambitious roadmap Thursday to tackle the world’s major challenges, from climate change to equality for women, with a key goal of ending ...

15.5 million Nigerians have fallen into extreme poverty over the course of the past two years. The World Poverty Clock, a web tool based on World Data Lab's global poverty model, estimated in June ...

In Bangladesh, programs targeting ultra-poor, rural households can help families escape extreme poverty. However, the ...

NEW YORK (WPVI) -- Global Citizen Festival is back, returning to New York City's Central Park's Great Lawn on Saturday. The 12th installment of the Global Citizen Festival features some of the most ...

Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment said it is intensifying area-based community empowerment to meet a 2026 target of ...

Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

What's new, however, is that over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months, according to a report by the on Wednesday, October 31, 2018. This brings the total number ...