Poverty. How do you define this word? The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.25 a day. More than 1.4 billion people in our world meet that definition. Even more startling, ...

Elon Musk’s views are backed by what the World Bank has been saying since 2020: 'Broadband (or high-speed) internet access ...

Oxfam’s latest report describes the period as a “Billionaire’s decade,” highlighting that while extreme wealth grows rapidly, ...

A new study by U.S.-based academics has found that ending global poverty could be “surprisingly affordable,” requiring about 0.3% — or $318 billion — of global gross domestic product (GDP) to reduce ...

There is no shortage of government and foundation programs to reduce poverty. Despite the progress made over the last 50 years, poverty persists. Look at India’s growth in the last two decades fueled ...

Our history of progress shows we can care for a growing population, but only if we tackle inequality and protect the ...

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 ...

Pope Francis has called on business and political leaders to do more in the fight against global poverty, in a letter addressed to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. The ...

Flies cover a malnourished child's face at a camp for internally displaced people outside Baradere, Somalia, March 13, 2022. In a Sept. 29 message to Qu Dongyu, general director of the U.N. Food and ...

As the world becomes more connected, globalization has become a daily reality for people in every corner of Earth. But while globalization — described by Peterson Institute for International Economics ...

9 July 2019 - In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a wealth of action had ...

For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Watch China And ...