Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

As a global problem, poverty poses a severe threat to all humanity. The ideal of reducing and eradicating poverty is rightly put in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Top on the ...

Timely and reliable poverty data are essential for effective policymaking. Yet in many countries, household consumption surveys, the backbone of monetary poverty measurement, are conducted ...