Over 400 million children worldwide live in extreme poverty. It is essential to take concrete measures to ensure a better and ...

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

To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the “International Poverty Line” ...

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 ...

After the Kerala government declared itself free from extreme poverty on November 1, poverty is back again in public ...

But one thing is certain, Kerala does not have the stark poverty that one sees in many other States. Kerala’s bountiful ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...

Kerala has achieved a historic milestone, becoming India's first state to eradicate extreme poverty. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced the success of the four-year Extreme Poverty Eradication ...

According to the World Bank, “extreme poverty” means living on less than $2.15 (about R37) a day. Fully 67% of those ...

As the Kerala government threw a shindig on Nov 1 in its capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, to announce it had eradicated ...

The announcement follows the successful implementation of the Extreme Poverty Eradication Programme (EPEP), local ...