Emergency funds are powerful tools for short-term relief but insufficient for driving or sustaining long-term systemic change ...

That’s the dire conclusion of a recent post by Max Roser, founder of the website Our World in Data. While Roser projects that the number of people in extreme poverty will decline by about 40 million ...

More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF ...

Hurricane Melissa’s impact on eastern Cuba has exposed the country’s extreme poverty and the state of abandonment in remote ...

A study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior estimates the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty. It is generally believed that adults ...

Shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine mean the world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank said in a new report released on ...

The number of children living in extreme poverty has nearly tripled in the past five years, according to a new report that lays bare the impact of the cost of living crisis on hard-hit families. A ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. An estimated 41 million Americans are living below the ...

The number of people in India living in extreme poverty declined sharply in the last decade, from 27.1% to 5.3%, as per latest data estimates released by the World Bank. According to the World Bank’s ...

Extreme poverty in Poland fell to 5.2 percent in 2024 from 6.6 percent a year earlier, according to a new Poverty Watch report by EAPN Poland, the Polish branch of the European Anti-Poverty Network.

Jamaica’s poverty rate dipped to a historic 7.8 per cent in 2024, down from the previous record low of 8.2 per cent in the ...

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.On 1 November 2025, the Government of Kerala announced that it ...