The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

Historically, most human beings lived in extreme poverty, but the share has been plummeting — and in 2024 reached a new low of about 8.5 percent of the world’s people. Another way of looking ...

Most states saw an increase in the percentage of rural children living in poverty during the first years of this century, according to a report issued by University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute ...

as 44 percent of the world continues to live in poverty. FRANCE 24's Business Editor Charles Pellegrin speaks with Oxfam International's Executive Director Amitabh Behar at the opening of the ...

Reducing world poverty is today's central development challenge ... Debt service payments as a percentage of exports, GDP and government revenues will fall dramatically. This is real progress. One ...

In 25 years, the Philippines suffered massive declines on three fronts: 1) in the output and growth rate of agriculture, once the economy’s mainstay and biggest employer; 2) in economic growth, down ...

The poverty rate for single-parent households surveyed in 2021 decreased by 3.8 percentage points from the previous survey in 2018 to 44.5 percent, but it remains high. The ministry releases the ...

The Uzbek government reports continuing progress in reducing poverty in the country. But the official baseline for calculating the poverty line may be contributing to an undercount. The Ministry of ...

The number of seniors living in poverty on Long Island spiked dramatically over the past decade. oksanamedvedeva - stock.adobe.com The number of elderly folks living in poverty on Long Island ...

A recent survey showed that 44.1 percent of single Japanese women aged 65 and older are living in poverty, much higher than the rate for single elderly men. The poverty level is as severe as that ...