China claimed last year it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty. President Xi Jinping heralded it as a “major victory” that the Chinese Communist Party had ...

The study, based on government household expenditure data from 2022-23 and 2023-24, finds that extreme poverty in India has nearly been eliminated, and inequality has declined significantly.

India contributes significantly to this number, accounting for almost 70 percent of the increase in extreme poverty. The World Bank defines poverty using the International Poverty Line ...

(ANTARA/HO-Biro Humas Kemensos) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Social Affairs is working with the Ministry of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions to create a joint action plan to ...

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said that the North-East suffers extreme poverty even as he hailed North-East Development Commission (NEDC) for investing in education to wriggle ...

The studies are meant to generate knowledge and obtain results to enhance effectiveness of national strategies, policies, and programmes targeting poverty and its associated challenges. Speaking in ...

HAMILTON, Canada – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday highlighted the ongoing struggles faced by women and girls worldwide, warning that "eradicating extreme poverty for women and girls ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima has urged the North East Development Commission (NEDC) and the Federal Ministry of Regional Development to maintain the tempo in driving the Accelerated Senior ...

At the current pace, hunger and extreme poverty rates show little sign of drastically receding by 2030. Speaking on the backdrop of IFAD’s annual Governing Council, King Letsie III of Lesotho, African ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...