Nearly one in four people in Bangladesh – 24.05% of the population or approximately 39.77 million individuals – are living in multidimensional poverty, according to the country's first-ever National ...

Boosting education and skills training as well as improving transport and strengthening social protection would help people ...

The Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council has laid out a road map. One of their top recommendations: a further expansion ...

Photographer Robert A. Flischel shares a curated historical account of poverty and pain in Cincinnati and beyond in his photo ...

Income inequality in Turkey has turned into an abyss. Turkey, the European leader in income inequality, has entered the top ...

Care workers are twice as likely to live in poverty than the average UK worker, according to a hard-hitting new report from a leading think tank, which is calling on the government to improve pay ...

Poland's extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.2 percent in 2024, down 1.4 percentage points from the previous year, the country’s statistics office has reported.

In 2021, something remarkable happened: the United States cut its child poverty rate nearly in half. This wasn’t due to a booming economy or a new war on poverty. It was thanks to the expanded ...

As always, Indonesia’s national poverty line remains the most relevant measure for country-specific policy discussions, while the new global poverty measures are intended for benchmarking Indonesia ...

SBI expects India's poverty rate to drop to 4.6% per cent levels, compared to the World Bank estimates of 5.3% in 2023 amid India's overall economic growth. Last week, the poverty line threshold ...