Today, almost 700 million people (8.5 percent of the global population) live in extreme poverty - on less than $2.15 per day. Progress has stalled amid low growth, setbacks due to COVID-19, and ...

Results of a survey - carried out before the cut to the winter fuel payment - showed an increasing number of households are ...

This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015. At the global level more than 800 million people are still living in extreme poverty. Globally, 300 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty ...

Many displaced people live in extreme poverty. The most vulnerable among them are so poor that they can’t engage in activities from most regular livelihood programmes. They are also short of basic ...

With 10 percent of the world subsisting in extreme poverty, a global commitment to a living wage could help transform lives. ByJon Heggie Under a blazing sun, a farm laborer bends to pluck cotton ...

More than one billion people live in acute poverty ... showed that some 584 million people under 18 were experiencing extreme poverty, accounting for 27.9 percent of children worldwide, compared ...

Global economic growth stabilised at a low level of 2.7 per cent last year and is expected to hold steady in 2025 and 2026, ...

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now.204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every week.Sixty percent of billionaire wealth is now derived from ...

It said "At an aggregate level, we believe poverty rates in India could now be in the range of 4-4.5 per cent with almost minimal existence of extreme ... in improving living standards and ...

Ro Teimumu stated that without focused government interventions, these communities risk being left behind. She advocated for ...

Nearly half of single-parent households in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the 2021 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions released by the welfare ministry on July 4.