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.

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

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 ...

Their answers set the clock for the coming year. Two years later, as those same scientists contemplated a world in which two atomic weapons had been used in Japan, they gathered to discuss the ...

The courts have heard she had had a “tragic” life and had been in a "vicious circle" of horrendous poverty and substance abuse. She was previously addicted to heroin and cocaine and though she ...

Yet, it’s also home to 228 million people living below the poverty line (World Poverty Clock, 2023). Such paradoxes underscore the urgent need for alternative frameworks to measure progress.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Billionaires’ wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, a top anti-poverty group reported on Monday as some of the world’s political and ...

with 71 million people living in extreme poverty today (World Poverty Clock, 2023) and a total of 133 million people classed as multi-dimensionally poor according to data from the National Bureau ...

Historically, most human beings lived in extreme poverty, but the share has been plummeting — and in 2024 reached a new low of about 8.5 percent of the world’s people. Another way of looking ...