The infographic contains a table listing country names and poverty rates. Zimbabwe is ranked first with a score of 84.2 ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for: they live in a time that has made historic ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment. [Photo: Courtesy] World Bank has ...

Structural poverty refers to an expected poverty status based on the relationship between the assets people own—bicycles, cars, land, livestock, businesses—and the income they generate. A focus on ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with ...

United Nations – More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries, according to a report released ...

A report issued during a United Nations event for World Day of the Poor shows that efforts to alleviate global poverty have slowed. The annual Pope Francis Global Poverty Report released by Jesuit-run ...

Bill Gates has answered 11 questions submitted by readers of Newsweek magazine about his work in developing countries, high-tech versus low-tech solutions to poverty, the impending water shortage, and ...

On 15 October 2024, the World Bank stated in a press release: ‘The global goal of ending extreme poverty – less than $2.15 per person per day – by 2030 is out of reach: it would take three decades or ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down.

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...