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

Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The collective wealth of about 3,000 world’s billionaires has grown by $6.5 trillion in the last decade, resulting in their total net worth being 14.6% of the global GDP. According to UK-based ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.According to the World Bank/Our ...

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 ...

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 ...