UNITED NATIONS — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries, according to a report released ...
India was the country with the largest number of people in extreme poverty, which impacts 234 million of its 1.4 billion population, according to the report — Biju BORO More than one billion people ...
In September 2015, Heads of State will convene at the General Assembly of the United Nations to agree upon a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The first target of the first SDG proposed by ...
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Measuring poverty in the age of climate change
HOW we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s ...
Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...
When we talk about poverty- you always think about somebody else right? Poor?...Me?...Not me. Well, a report released today says when you look at poverty in terms of ...
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter said on Friday that Rwanda needs to better distribute its wealth to protect populations that are still living below the ...
In a Sunday interview with The Guardian, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter stated that the poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and that the ...
More than three years of Intifada and closures have plunged the Palestinian economy into deep crisis, causing dramatic declines in living standards. This report – and indeed much of the attention of ...
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