In September 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed themselves to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are ...

Learn how to use the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared ...

What determines mental health, school performance, and even cognitive development? A new study in Reviews in the Neurosciences suggests that poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES) are key ...

The global fight against extreme poverty has stalled for a second consecutive year, according to the 2025 Fordham Pope Francis Global Poverty Report, which tracks access to seven basic human needs ...

19 June 2023 - In 2015, the SDGs were agreed as an integrated and indivisible set of Goals that cannot be achieved one at a time or in siloes. The recently released ‘Report of the Secretary-General on ...

Sustainable energy has the power to disrupt this cycle. Access to clean cooking technologies can reduce the time spent collecting firewood and lower exposure to indoor air pollution, which is a major ...

The world has still not done enough to improve access to safe drinking water, the United Nations says in a new report - Copyright AFP/File AHMAD AL-BASHA The world ...

Since the general problem of poverty in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, is related to political, economic and social marginalization, all efforts to eradicate ...

Let me start by extending our warmest greetings to Secretary Arsi Balisacan, NEDA Secretary; to our distinguished panelists, to the Representatives from the private sector, civil society, the academe ...

This article examines how socialist Slovenia produced, obscured, recognized, and partially mitigated peasant poverty. While the official ideology ...