The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

Some 700 million people around the globe live in extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as living on less than $2.15 per day. Ending that poverty, one of the United Nations’ Sustainable ...

The event description claimed that tourists would get a glimpse into the daily lives of slum dwellers, including their small ...

“We got a first-hand look at the extent of poverty among slum dwellers ... of the night for distribution to schools, temples and slums. “This trip would never have been possible without ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects on his childhood of extreme poverty and the lessons learned from his father's tea shop.