The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Bangladesh, programs targeting ultra-poor, rural households can help families escape extreme poverty. However, the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A high-level U.N. panel recommended an ambitious roadmap Thursday to tackle the world’s major challenges, from climate change to equality for women, with a key goal of ending ...

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 ...

15.5 million Nigerians have fallen into extreme poverty over the course of the past two years. The World Poverty Clock, a web tool based on World Data Lab's global poverty model, estimated in June ...

The collective wealth of about 3,000 world’s billionaires has grown by $6.5 trillion in the last decade, resulting in their total net worth being 14.6% of the global GDP. According to UK-based ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (WPVI) -- Global Citizen Festival is back, returning to New York City's Central Park's Great Lawn on Saturday. The 12th installment of the Global Citizen Festival features some of the most ...

What's new, however, is that over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months, according to a report by the on Wednesday, October 31, 2018. This brings the total number ...