Of the nearly 1 million people living in Marion County, more than 167,000—almost 18 percent—live in poverty. The rate increases to a staggering 25 percent for children under the age of 18. Breaking ...

Eradicating extreme poverty globally, as outlined in the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, is achievable only if inequality and discrimination against women and girls is eradicated first. Faustine ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) has the 5th highest rate of poverty in the world, with nearly 70% of the country’s people living in extreme poverty. The World Bank’s first-ever Poverty Assessment ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...