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 ...
Nigeria currently has a population of 237 million people and over 133 million Nigerians are living in this kind of poverty.
Gov. Gavin Newsom often boasts that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s fourth-largest economy. But despite its wealth, the state has also seen a sharp increase in poverty since ...
Nigeria’s poverty rate is projected to rise sharply to 62 per cent by 2026, with about 141 million people expected to be ...
The World Bank recently released a comprehensive review of Pakistan’s poverty and welfare trends since the early 2000s. The assessment has raised concerns about Pakistan’s economy, saying that the ...
The poor are not a faceless group, but a diverse tapestry of individuals and families, each facing unique constraints and requiring tailored solutions. Pakistan saw notable poverty reduction from 2001 ...
Four Upstate New York cities ranked among those with the highest child poverty rates in the country in 2024. The cities were Syracuse, Rochester, Albany and Buffalo, according to 2024 estimates ...