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About 333 million children, or 1 in 6, live in extreme poverty, enduring conditions of deprivation that encompass basic needs, dignity, opportunities

Learn about the concerning rise in energy poverty affecting approximately 42 million people in the EU. Discover the European Economic and Social Committee's (EESC) proposed strategies, including inflation control, renewables, energy efficiency, and equitable access to essential energy services.

Discover how 25 countries, including Cambodia, China, India, and Indonesia, achieved significant poverty reduction by halving their global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) values within 15 years. Learn about the latest report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) highlighting the feasibility of poverty eradication and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patients living in poverty in the Global South are being bankrupted by private healthcare corporations backed by multi-million-dollar investments from development finance institutions (DFIs) run by the UK, French, German and other rich country governments.

Despite Europe being one of the wealthiest regions in the world, one in four children are at the risk of poverty, according...

With the lives of poor people becoming complex because of COVID-19 pandemic and Ukraine war,  poverty can be overcome with on-the-ground strategies...

Rising inflation and Russia-Ukraine war have triggered a 19 per cent increase in child poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said...

The world is unlikely to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and that COVID-19 dealt the biggest setback to...

Have you ever thought why so many premature deaths happen in adulthood? Well, a new study by a group of researchers at...

With global food and energy prices surging ahead, about 71 million people in the developing world have fallen into poverty in just...