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 ...

Tackling poverty is often difficult and expensive, which may explain Labour’s caution. What hope it can offer Britain’s poorest comes more in the promise of general economic growth than in ...

That has made child poverty statistics distinct and credible. In the words of UNICEF, they are “no longer lumped together with general poverty assessments”, and that has helped establish a focus on ...

Nobody celebrates Christmas more enthusiastically than children. Indeed, their wide smiles and unadulterated joy at receiving presents and partaking of special food make this most wonderful time of ...

The Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty can help eradicate hunger, says Brazil’s Minister of Social Development and ...

$2.15 per person per day for extreme poverty and $6.85 per person per day for general poverty. In 2023, the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty fell to 4.4 percent, down from 6. ...

The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in UK absolute poverty in 30 years, new figures show. Steep prices rises, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meant hundreds of thousands ...

4. a) The United Nations General Assembly through its resolution 70/1 adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. Goal 1 is End poverty in all its forms everywhere and the first specific target (1. ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his message for the 2017 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum that "targeted poverty reduction strategies are the only way to reach those ...

The 40,9% is equivalent to some 18 million people. “There is greater general poverty. We are all a little poorer – we already were last year – and now with greater inequality,” said UCA ...