Watkins said the percentage of global extreme poverty has dropped from 52 percent to 25 percent, according to he project's statistics, but it’s still not enough. “It’s true — in the past few decades, ...

Last year, Central Park’s Great Lawn played host to the first-ever Global Citizen Festival. Unlike attendees at most free concerts, the 60,000 who came had to do more than just show up to get in. Fans ...

In the wake of the election, it is clear that we must be conscious not only of America’s choices for itself, but of its effects on the rest of the world. In a recent report from the World Bank, over ...

Continuing its efforts to alleviate poverty worldwide, Caterpillar Inc. and the Caterpillar Foundation are making a $2.5 million investment in The Global Poverty Project. The investment will support ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

This is a special guest post from Ramesh Ferris, a polio survivor, a Rotarian, and author of the book Better Than a Cure, One Man's Journey to Free the World of Polio ...