This inexpensive technology remains an effective tool for ensuring equitable access to vital health and economic information.

It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to ...

This would be the cheapest, most efficient way to end extreme poverty, and it would cost about $30 billion per year. But, ...

Kerala eradicates extreme poverty, highlighting cooperatives, social reforms, and left-led governance as a global model.

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the “International Poverty Line” ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2024 – At today’s feeble pace, it could take more than a century to eliminate poverty as it is defined for nearly half the world – people who live on less than $6.85 per day, ...

Although the number of people living in extreme poverty decreased to 5.1 million between 2009 and 2023, 10.8 million, almost ...

Latin America finds itself in an interesting predicament. While only the progressive governments are making progress on ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...

Jason Hickel receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number 101071647). Dylan Sullivan receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number ...