Here is data tracking the world absolute poverty rate from 1820 to 2015. The data shows vast improvement in the reduction of absolute poverty( living on less than US$1 per day in 1996). People are ...

To make this clear, absolute poverty - that peasant destitution - is being able to consume $1.90 worth of value per day. This is at modern American prices and it has to cover everything, housing, ...

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 ...

Yesterday Census gave us the updated poverty numbers for 2014 for the United States. The percentage of the population said to be in poverty, dependent upon the definition you want to use, is 14.8% or ...

June 22 (UPI) --A study for the U.N. Human Rights Council has concluded 40 million people in the United States live in poverty -- and more than half of those live in "extreme" or "absolute" poverty.

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL Poverty Index (MPI) is being considered to provide a more comprehensive measure of poverty that goes beyond income levels, says Economy Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir (pic).

ROME (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in Italy climbed to its highest level for more than a decade in 2017, data showed on Tuesday, prompting a promise of urgent action from the ...

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 ...

It’s hardly to Teen Vogue’s credit that its dreadful story “What ‘Capitalism’ Is and How It Affects People” isn’t nearly as wrongheaded and offensive as the viral tweet promoting it: “Can’t ...

A Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is being considered to provide a more comprehensive measure of poverty that goes beyond income levels, says Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir.

ROME, June 16 (Reuters) - The number of Italians living in absolute poverty rose sharply in 2020 to its highest level for at least 15 years as the coronavirus crisis brought economic pain to much of ...

“WORK remains the best route out of poverty,” the British government argues. The hourly minimum wage for workers aged 25 years or more now stands at £7.20 ($10.60), worth £252 a week to someone who ...