The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...

The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

The "Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024" by the World Bank highlights stalled progress in poverty reduction, ...

Some ideas are so incredibly asinine and destructive that you'll of course find some high-brow academic movement that ...

The World Bank’s September 2024 Poverty and Inequality Platform update introduces new tools and measures to track global ...

Corporations that benefit from poverty should have a legal duty to mitigate the harm of poverty from which they benefit.

This metric relies on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which determines poverty rates by calculating the share of people in a state whose family or individual income falls below poverty thresholds.

Australian philosopher Peter Singer says that where world poverty is concerned 'giving to charity' is neither charitable nor generous; it is no more than our duty and not giving would be wrong.

The title of Muhammad Yunus’ new book, Creating a World Without Poverty, gives a sense of his vision’s sweep, but only hints at his ambition. He wants not only to end global poverty and related ...

the main aim is getting people out of poverty," he says. And this is where Nigeria faces its greatest challenge. According to the World Bank, Nigeria is now the country with the most poor people ...

Real progress has been made in reducing poverty in recent years, particularly in India and China. However, there is still much uncertainty about the numbers. Using the same data, two reports released ...