The provision of credit, especially micro-credit, has become a very popular and successful strategy for poverty eradication. According to the United Nations Development Programme's Poverty Report ...

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.

According to the UN, more than 700 million people, or 10 per cent of the world population, live in extreme poverty. This means that these people struggle to meet basic needs such as health ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Countries classified as mostly or moderately free have a poverty rate of 1.8%. Countries categorized as mostly unfree or repressed have a poverty rate of 15.7%.

“Although the data show that the share of the African population in extreme poverty did decline, major poverty challenges still remain, especially in light of the region’s rapid population growth.” ...

The poverty rate across the Palestinian territories will almost double this year to 74.3 per cent after months of fighting in Gaza, according to a report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP ...

The United Nations (UN) has urged the UK government to remove the two-child limit on benefits and eliminate the five-week ...

Beijing Declaration, a UN report reveals a global backlash against women's rights, highlighting persistent gender inequality ...