In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...

Extreme poverty will rise for the first time this century as COVID-19 hammers the global economy, the World Bank said on ...

NEARLY eight in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—or 887 million of the 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air ...

Elon Musk has spent the last few weeks outlining a future with Optimus — one that will "eliminate" poverty, work, and require ...

The World Bank has approved an additional loan of $300 million to help Ukraine's government support low-income families amid ...

The World Bank was created at the end of World War II to rebuild Europe – and then took on the mission of lifting poor people ...

[00:00] - Those at the bottom of the income distribution, the poorest and the most vulnerable, have to be also more proactively engaged in that process of economic growth and benefiting from it. - ...

Gaza’s devastation starkly contrasts global promises to leave ‘no one behind’, as residents struggle for basic survival.

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 ...

The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over the rising poverty in Nigeria, saying that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers live below the poverty line. The World Bank stated this in its ...

Funmi Olotu, national coordinator of the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), says credible data and ...

The Nebraska Legislature mandated the plans, but it isn’t funding any of the follow-through, and federal cuts are likely to ...