The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

About 72 percent of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in countries that are eligible to receive assistance from the International Development Association (IDA). The number of people ...

Statista reports that the World Bank utilizes varying poverty thresholds, with $3.65 per person per day applicable to lower-middle-income countries and $6.85 for upper-middle-income populations.

Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country has reached the ambitious goal set when he assumed office in 2012 of lifting 100 million people out of poverty. But what has China actually achieved?

For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Watch China ...

In September 2015, the governments of the world agreed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were designed to guide global economic, environmental and social policy in all countries over ...

For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Dynamic Duos: ...