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 ...

Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

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 ...

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

At a time when millions of people around the world struggle with poverty, food insecurity, lack of education, and inadequate health care, a new war has once again engulfed the Middle East. This war ...

Jason Hickel receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number 101071647). Dylan Sullivan receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number ...

The United Nations has raised fresh concerns over rising global poverty and hunger, warning that the world is off track to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, a central target of the Sustainable ...

Kate Schecter, president and CEO of World Neighbors, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss progress and setbacks in promoting economic development in some of the world’s poorest countries.

FEATURING: Ruth Hill, Lead Economist, Global Unit of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank / Sonia Cifuentes, Colombian citizen benefited from a cash transfer program. Ruth Hill, a lead ...

Charity workers Jane Knoop, Delphine Wolfe and Alekhya Kasi are taking part in the Post Your Pad campaign [Lily-May ...

9 July 2019 - In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a wealth of action had ...