New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...
Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...
India has achieved a significant milestone in its fight against extreme poverty, with the latest World Bank data showing a dramatic decline in the extreme poverty rate from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 to ...
17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...