Poverty undermines children’s health, development and learning, leading to weaker job prospects, shorter lifespans and higher ...

More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF report.

More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF ...

By Knut Ostby and Mohamed Shahudh How we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” in the 1980s broadened the ...

UNITED NATIONS — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries, according to a report released ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Southeast Asia is on the brink of a "socio-economic crisis" caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that could reverse decades of poverty reduction, the United Nations has warned. "The ...

Nearly 412 million children, or one in five globally, lived in extreme monetary poverty, surviving on less than $3 a day ...