Michael W. Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked ...

The country has lifted more than 700mn people out of indigence, but some doubt Xi Jinping’s claim that the mission is complete ...

Is India’s poverty rate 5% or 24%? A debate over poverty lines, data transparency, and Parliament’s questions reveals how millions may be missing from policy.

Poverty remains Nigeria’s most persistent national emergency, more dangerous than inflation figures, more destabilising than political rivalry, and more consequential ...

Under a higher threshold, almost a fifth of China’s population would be considered to be living in poverty, World Bank estimates showed.

This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of poverty due to disasters, 12.7 million thereof facing extreme poverty. Disaster ...

A new report reveals Nigeria's poverty rate surged to 63% after the petrol subsidy removal, significantly impacting household welfare and the economy.

UK slashes aid to poorest nations in ‘moral catastrophe’ of 40% savings – and fails to protect HIV funding fully - Ministers ...

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 ...

He said a new policy study by Agora Policy revealed that the poverty rate rose from about 40% before the reforms to over 63% under the current administration. He argued that this suggests the economic ...

Which countries suffer from high levels of inequality? Has global inequality declined over the past three decades, or remained persistently high? Surprisingly, the answers depend on where you look.