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

The Fordham Pope Francis Global Poverty Report, compiled by researchers at Fordham University's Graduate Program in ...

The end of pandemic-era economic policies has led to a surge in child poverty nationwide, according to a new report. The ...

When the air conditioning broke in a Terrebonne Parish school, it sometimes got so hot that kids fainted or had asthma attacks, and the school had to call an ambulance. More often, the school sent ...

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

Deaths in the region have doubled in the last five months. In the United States and other Western nations, the toll from COVID-19 is finally beginning to ease, at least in part, because of the rapid ...

The pandemic will push 47 million more women and girls below the poverty line, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) The COVID-19 ...

This was supposed to be the year that Beijing would announce it had ended absolute poverty in China, fulfilling a key pledge of President Xi Jinping and one of the founding missions of the Chinese ...