Less than two years later, a headline chart in another major World Bank publication, Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy, showed that the number of people living in ...

The World Bank expects Thailand's poverty rate to continue declining this year, supported by ongoing economic recovery and the government's cash transfer programmes. According to Kiatipong ...

Speaking in Kaduna on Saturday when the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Nentawe Yilwatda, paid him a courtesy visit, Governor Sani lamented that most ...

The report details the decline of those living in global poverty, which is reclassified as living on $1.90 or less a day, to a forecast 9.6 percent of the world’s population in 2015 -- a projected 200 ...

there is growing optimism about tackling the issue of poverty. Africa is among the fastest-growing regions in the world. Access to communications is changing the continent and the use and access ...

Gathering data and information on persons with disabilities — and making them a regular part of publications such as poverty assessments — provides visibility to a group often neglected in ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...