Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

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 ...

The infographic contains a table listing country names and poverty rates. Zimbabwe is ranked first with a score of 84.2 ...

Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for: they live in a time that has made historic ...

Rio de Janeiro — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down.

Bill Gates has answered 11 questions submitted by readers of Newsweek magazine about his work in developing countries, high-tech versus low-tech solutions to poverty, the impending water shortage, and ...

Structural poverty refers to an expected poverty status based on the relationship between the assets people own—bicycles, cars, land, livestock, businesses—and the income they generate. A focus on ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.According to the World Bank/Our ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment. [Photo: Courtesy] World Bank has ...

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 ...