But measuring poverty has long been a challenge, in large part because of the time and cost involved in trying to collect data from the poorest and most vulnerable populations. Combine AI with ...

A record number of children in Flintshire were living in poverty last year, according to "heartbreaking" new figures.

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The UK once led the way in tackling child poverty. Under the last Labour government, poverty fell significantly due to targeted policies like tax credits, early-years investment, and expanded social ...

Child poverty is set to increase under a Labour government for the first time in history and an alternative path is needed to ...

At the time of Mr Dube’s visit in 1995 almost half of India’s population still lived below the international poverty line, according to the World Bank. Mr Dube lamented India’s lack of ...

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China has vowed to keep its urban jobless rate around 5.5 per cent this year while striving to prevent those at the lowest economic rung of society from falling back into poverty, in an effort to ...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing a fresh backlash over the two-child benefit cap after a key economic think tank warned child poverty would hit an all-time high if it is not scrapped. The prime minister ...

The cost-of-living crisis and rising inflation have pushed nearly half of UK adults into hygiene poverty for the first time this year, according to a new report. A staggering 2.2 million families ...