Poverty affects millions of people around the world, shaping their daily lives in ways many of us can’t imagine. It’s more ...

The Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty can help eradicate hunger, says Brazil’s Minister of Social Development and ...

Progress in reducing global poverty has essentially halted: by 2030, nearly 7 percent of the world's population—nearly 600 million people—will still struggle in extreme poverty. Within-country ...

The World Bank has revealed that approximately 700 million people, or 8.5% of the global population, are living in extreme ...

It is the World Bank’s job to lend to all 78 of the world’s poorest countries—defined both by their income per person and the ...

At the national and global levels, there are laws that seek to protect intellectual property rights. In a rapidly globalizing world, poor people's knowledge, whether of plants or traditional healing ...

More American cities—even those seen as affluent—are home to people living without running water as people are being ...

The IMF and World Bank are juggling promoting reform ... which have successfully liberalised in the past but still contain many poor people, are now interfering with market forces to try to ...