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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A new status report on the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals found that despite unprecedented progress in the past 13 years, eradicating poverty worldwide by 2015 would require new efforts ...

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 ...

The World Bank on Thursday projected that poverty in Nigeria will increase by 3.6 percentage points over the next five years, rising through 2027. This was contained in the Bank’s Africa’s Pulse ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...