Efforts to combat global poverty remain unchanged in part because of severe cutbacks in American international aid, ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

Fuel poverty in social homes has declined over the past year, but is that the whole picture? We investigate, using the Housing Fuel Poverty Index from smart thermostat provider Switchee.

Flies cover a malnourished child's face at a camp for internally displaced people outside Baradere, Somalia, March 13, 2022. In a Sept. 29 message to Qu Dongyu, general director of the U.N. Food and ...

Pope Francis joins some 1,300 guests for lunch in the Vatican audience hall on the World Day of the Poor Nov. 13, 2022. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) In 2015, Pope Francis addressed the United ...

A new report from the United Nations indicates India has made great strides in helping to get its citizens out of poverty: Between 2006 and 2016, the percentage of India's population in what's known ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution, ...