More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report. Countries at war have higher levels of ...

UNDP and Oxford said this year’s report focused on poverty amid conflict because 2023 saw more conflicts than at any time ...

In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 16 percent of the world’s population, but 67 percent of the people living in extreme poverty. Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...

Oxfam predicted in its new report that the world was on track to see at least five trillionaires within a decade.

Nearly 700 million people live in extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as surviving on less than $1.90 a day. This brings such devastating problems that the United Nations made its first ...

The government would give poor people a regular cash handout with ... To be eligible, a family must live below the poverty line. The government gives these households a monthly cash benefit ...