A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

In February 2021, China announced the complete eradication of absolute poverty — an unprecedented achievement in human history, considering the ...

In 2016, for the first time in history, the portion of humanity living in extreme poverty was reduced to less than 10%. The world has set a goal of abolishing absolute poverty by 2030. Our panel of ...

The Chinese leadership anticipated the risk clearly. In a December 2020 document, the authorities emphasized that "lifting the poverty label is not the end" and set a five-year transition period to ...

UNCTAD reports Gaza's economy has collapsed, with all residents plunged into poverty amid unprecedented humanitarian and fiscal crises.

Five years ago, around 650 million people lived in poverty across the globe. Today, that number has climbed to more than 800 million. In other words, one out of every ten people on Earth still ...

Two studies conducted by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) have shed light on the deepening crisis of child poverty in the country. Accordingly, 7.03 million children aged 0-17 ...

At the end of last year, the World Bank and others projected an increase in global extreme poverty in 2020 for the first time in many years. The coronavirus outbreak has been negatively impacting a ...

ROME (Reuters) - One in seven Italians scrapes by on less than 1,000 euros (£853) a month and roughly one in 20 lives in absolute poverty, unable to maintain a minimum standard of living, the national ...