poverty

Lower and middle-income countries are trapped in a “vicious cycle” of debt

While we enjoy our bounty, tens of millions of people across the world go to bed hungry

A New  York Times newsletter discusses the pandemic learning loss experienced by students and considers the most significant factors that have caused it. The data comes from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a rigorous exam that evaluates thousands of...

According to a report published on Wednesday by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), achieving full gender equality, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could take close to 300 years if the...

ISTAT said Wednesday that 5.6 million people in Italy were living in conditions of absolute poverty in 2021, adding that this meant the scale of the problem remained at the record level registered the previous year. The national statistics agency...

Despite the serious economic and labour-market crises triggered by the pandemic, poverty levels remained stable in the EU, albeit with a high degree of heterogeneity between countries and different segments of the population, according to the preliminary results of a...

On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres presented the first detailed policy brief issued by the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance (GCRG), which he set up to study the effects of the war in Ukraine on the...

Samuel (not his real name) grew up near the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince, and has seen his childhood home descend into lawlessness and gang violence. Now a staff member with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in the country, he faces...