Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...

This amount, estimated as the amount needed to set up basic social protection schemes in the world’s lowest-income countries, is affordable for the international community.

Wealthy people are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior such as donating money or volunteering, according to a new global study.

A new World Bank report has revealed a sobering outlook for poverty eradication, projecting that 622 million people will still live in extreme poverty by 2030 despite decades of global efforts to end ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...

Why not reduce nuclear arsenals from thousands into the hundreds, and divert savings toward fighting hunger and poverty?

A metaphor for the dangers facing humanity, the clock is updated based on perceptions about how close humans are to destroying the world - with midnight symbolising that point. The countdown is ...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge criticized Union home minister Amit Shah's visit to the Maha Kumbh, asserting that a dip in the Ganga won’t alleviate poverty. He accused BJP leaders of ...

Based on new evidence and a deeper understanding of the meaning and causes of poverty, the World Bank's World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty argues that major reductions in world ...

With respect to climate change, 2024 was in many ways similar to 2023: Manifestations of a changed climate continued to be felt increasingly across the world, even as the clean-energy transition ...

Investopedia / Daniel Fishel The federal poverty level (FPL) is an economic measure used to decide whether the income level of an individual or family qualifies them for certain federal benefits ...