Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for: they live in a time that has made historic ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

A report issued during a United Nations event for World Day of the Poor shows that efforts to alleviate global poverty have slowed. The annual Pope Francis Global Poverty Report released by Jesuit-run ...

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, a ...

Global poverty measurement has evolved from a simple international poverty line to a diverse set of approaches that capture both monetary and non-monetary deprivations. The traditional dollar-a-day ...

Stanford economic researchers estimate that ending poverty worldwide would cost $170 billion per year, establishing a concrete number for future policies. The study, published in December by ...

Timely and reliable poverty data are essential for effective policymaking. Yet in many countries, household consumption surveys, the backbone of monetary poverty measurement, are conducted ...

A five-day seminar on advanced poverty measurement and analysis took place at the Four Points by Sheraton Dar es Salaam New Africa Hotel from June 10-14, 2024. The event was targeted at researchers, ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

In Nusa Tenggara Timur, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is ...