Despite the roughly $1-trillion that has been spent on grants and loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, the World Bank reports that nearly half the world’s population ...

The expansion of the child tax credits under the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child poverty shot back up. This year, 11 states either created a state-level child ...

Restructuring local government, improving public transportation and boosting education spending could significantly reduce child poverty in East St. Louis — benefiting over half of the city’s children ...

The federal government has unveiled a sweeping reform of Nigeria's humanitarian and poverty reduction architecture, adopting a new unified framework aimed at ending years of fragmented interventions ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

The provincial government says it is advancing work on a new 10-year Poverty Reduction and Prevention Strategy, focused on practical, forward-looking solutions to help reduce poverty rates to the ...

Nigeria plans to lift 50 million people out of poverty within five years; one of the most ambitious targets in its poverty reduction programmes. This raises a deeper question: what does it mean to end ...

The government is by far the best institution to raise the poor’s standard of living. The church does something more important for them. When it comes to alleviating poverty, it is the best of times.

While many of us are starting fresh with New Year’s resolutions, it's important to remember that for many, just surviving another day is a struggle. Poverty isn’t just about a lack of income — it's a ...

There is no other way to look at the Poverty Report and not confirm that Nigeria is the undisputed Poverty capital of the world .