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 ...

Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly ...

About 75.5 per cent of rural Nigerians are now living below the poverty line, reflecting deepening hardship in the country’s hinterlands, the World Bank, has disclosed. The disclosure was made in the ...

The World Bank has revealed that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers now live below the poverty line in Nigeria. The Bank disclosed this in its April 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief for Nigeria ...

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 ...

Climate COP30 Poverty FILE - Luis Cassiano cools off with water that falls from his green roof at his home in Arara, a poor neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro on Jan. 9 ...

Dr. Regina Murphy Keith is affiliated with the World Public Health Nutrition Association a registered charity for nutritionists and she is a Commissioner on the UK RIght to Food Commisssion The UK ...

Billionaires in the world's leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the world's poor out of poverty, global campaign group Oxfam said Thursday.