The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

By: Sir Henry Olujimi Boyo (Les Leba) first published in October 2018 INTRO: Last week this column repub­lished “African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA): Matters Arising.” The article ...

Two billion people globally suffer from moderate to severe food insecurity and widespread micronutrient deficiencies. This ...

It was the lot of most human beings. As recently as 1950, more than half the world’s population lived in a state of extreme poverty. Go back further, to the early 19th century, and it was closer ...

China's story is proof that developing countries can eradicate poverty through perseverance and sustained efforts. If China can make it, other developing countries can make it too. This is what ...

Why do a billion people still live in poverty worldwide, and what can be done to change this? The series <a href="http://www.whypoverty.net/" target="_blank">Why ...

Argentina's poverty rate fell sharply in the second half of 2024, the government's INDEC statistics agency said on Monday, a ...

TikTok admitted that about 30% of gift revenue goes toward app store fees and processing costs, but the company can end up ...

Poverty remains one of the most pressing issues globally, with over 700 million people worldwide living in extreme poverty—on less than P123.70 per day. In the Philippines, the situation is equally ...

The figure, released by the Department for Work and Pensions, is an increase of 100,000 children from the previous year - and ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ...

President Donald Trump is showing America’s trading partners no mercy. If they export a lot to the U.S., it will tariff them back — by half. The rates are especially steep on many developing countries ...