Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a major milestone this week in his five-year long fight to end absolute poverty across the country – but it doesn’t appear that he’s celebrating yet. China was for ...

We compare trends in absolute poverty before (1939–1963) and after (1963–2023) the War on Poverty was declared. Our primary methodological contribution is to create a post-tax post-transfer income ...

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 14 - Over 2.2 million households were living in conditions of absolute poverty in Italy in 2024, 8,4% of the nation's families, Istat said on Tuesday. The national statistics agency ...

In 2016, for the first time in history, the portion of humanity living in extreme poverty was reduced to less than 10%. The world has set a goal of abolishing absolute poverty by 2030. Our panel of ...

With less than four years to the globaltarget of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, poverty remains a deeply rootedissue across the global community. Despite global progress, the World Bankestimates ...

Kim Hak-Su the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commision for the Asia and Pacific based in Bangkok. He is in Kathmandu this weekend to attend a regional conference on the ...

Since the general problem of poverty in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, is related to political, economic and social marginalization, all efforts to eradicate ...

I suppose if you’re someone who thinks American capitalism has failed and unironically uses the phrase “late capitalism,” there’s probably no changing your mind. So I guess this post is meant for ...

Billions of dollars in foreign aid could be spent more effectively if international poverty statistics were more accurate, according to new research led by King's College London. Dr. Michail Moatsos, ...

Two studies conducted by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) have shed light on the deepening crisis of child poverty in the country. Accordingly, 7.03 million children aged 0-17 ...

Do you like to time travel as much as I do? If you’re reading this letter, a form of time travel in its own right, I expect you do. My current favorite way to visit ...