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

Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for: they live in a time that has made historic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

Extreme poverty in Latin America hit its highest level for nine years in 2017, according to a report by the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2025—Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty faster than anywhere else, intensifying acute hunger, ...

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with ...

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 ...

A mother struggling with schizophrenia, extreme poverty, and the demands of raising a teenager is now facing a $32,000 bill from the Social Security Administration. According to a post on the ...