Over four million children will still be living in poverty by 2029, the government’s own analysis has forecast, marking a reduction of just 10 per cent from the current figure.

Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly ...

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...

Lord John Bird tabled an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill which would set targets to reducing child ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Poverty is not an intractable problem; it can be eradicated ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

I have read “The End of Poverty” by Jeffrey Sachs countless times, and each time I return to the same question: This is powerful but can it really work in practice? My brother, Edwin Musoni, was by ...

In uncertain times for global trade, investment and growth, one question looms large - can poverty really be reduced with limited resources? So, when chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on ...

Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves or their loved ones. Absolutely, not their fault in spite of some ...