Between 1990 and today, the number of people living in extreme poverty — meaning on the equivalent of $3 or less per day in US purchasing power — fell from 2.3 billion to around 800 million, even as ...

Efforts to combat global poverty remain unchanged in part because of severe cutbacks in American international aid, ...

The seminar brought together nearly 200 representatives from 17 countries and seven international organizations. Participants shared innovative practices, including cases where international ...

Global poverty reduction has slowed to a near standstill, with 2020-2030 set to be a lost decade. Progress has stalled amid multiple crises and shocks, impacting low-income countries the hardest and ...

A report issued during a United Nations event for World Day of the Poor shows that efforts to alleviate global poverty have slowed. The annual Pope Francis Global Poverty Report released by Jesuit-run ...

The poorest Americans are richer than 75 percent of humanity. About 4.56 billion people on this planet are living on less than $10 a day, and billions are living with little to no access to ...

In September 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed themselves to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are ...

A new report using data from 35 countries shows that two-thirds of households with children have experienced income loss during the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving many struggling to afford food, housing, ...

Income-based poverty in Argentina fell to 36.3% of the population in the third quarter of this year, down from 45.6% in the ...

NEW YORK, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on ...