New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution, ...

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Poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life, according to research based at Princeton University.

The Labor Income Poverty Index (LIPI) measures poverty based on the share of households that have less per capita labor income than the regional poverty lines relative to the reference period. The ...

WASHINGTON — Indiana is taking longer to recover from the Great Recession than the nation as a whole, according to a new poverty measure released Wednesday by Indiana University and the Salvation Army ...

The United Nations Development Programme has released its 2019 Multidimensional Poverty Index which highlights the number of people around the world experiencing poverty at regional, national and ...

Pope Francis joins some 1,300 guests for lunch in the Vatican audience hall on the World Day of the Poor Nov. 13, 2022. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) In 2015, Pope Francis addressed the United ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country’s population, thought to ...