People attend a fair celebrating the "pohui" festival in a Miao ethnic village of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 7, 2026.

The Chinese leadership anticipated the risk clearly. In a December 2020 document, the authorities emphasized that "lifting ...

In 2016, for the first time in history, the portion of humanity living in extreme poverty was reduced to less than 10%. The world has set a goal of abolishing absolute poverty by 2030. Our panel of ...

Since the general problem of poverty in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, is related to political, economic and social marginalization, all efforts to eradicate ...

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 14 - Over 2.2 million households were living in conditions of absolute poverty in Italy in 2024, 8,4% of the nation's families, Istat said on Tuesday. The national statistics agency ...

We compare trends in absolute poverty before (1939–1963) and after (1963–2023) the War on Poverty was declared. Our primary methodological contribution is to create a post-tax post-transfer income ...

When most people hear the word poverty, they think of empty pockets, begging on the streets, or not being able to afford food. However, poverty is much deeper than just not having money. It can affect ...

Two studies conducted by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) have shed light on the deepening crisis of child poverty in the country. Accordingly, 7.03 million children aged 0-17 ...

Do you like to time travel as much as I do? If you’re reading this letter, a form of time travel in its own right, I expect you do. My current favorite way to visit ...

This week, many Australians are holding their breath. On Sunday, we saw the end of the JobKeeper payment, with an estimated 150,000 people expected to now lose their jobs as a result. On Wednesday, ...