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 ...

The state’s interventions relied on community, local knowledge and provided much more than piecemeal handouts to address ...

Extreme poverty in developing countries fell 25% since 1990 and may be further halved so long as economic growth rates in those countries maintain their pace, the World Bank said in an annual report ...

(Adds details, quotes throughout) By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Tuesday more people are living in extreme poverty in developing countries than previously ...

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

The announcement follows the successful implementation of the Extreme Poverty Eradication Programme (EPEP), local ...

Despite a succession of welfare schemes and development programmes that have lifted sections of the tribal population, landlessness continues to haunt the majority. It remains the unhealed wound at ...

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The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into ...