Nearly 700 million people around the world are classified as living in extreme poverty, surviving on less than USD2.15 per ...

“Our new research shows that to address global poverty and create a more stable world for everyone, we must confront the ...

Foreign aid was helping the world’s poorest escape misery. It has been easy to dismiss efforts to raise the prospects of the world’s poorest as an abject failure. The United Nations reported 712 ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

Madagascar's government is the second to be ousted in recent weeks as young people angered by economic hardship and perceived ...

Extreme weather fuelled by the climate crisis has cost some of the world’s poorest countries $156bn (£116bn) across the past two decades, The Independent can reveal. “If the UK suffered tens of ...

The world’s poorest countries are going to get hotter more quickly than wealthier nations, and will stay that way for a ...

The World Bank is calling for $25 billion in further COVID-19 emergency financing to help the world's poorest countries grapple with the massive challenges of the global pandemic, the Bank's president ...

The global gap between the wealthy and the poor is growing, Oxfam says. People get on with their lives in a slum on the railway tracks as a commuter train goes past on Dec. 12, 2013 in Kolkata, India.