The world’s nations are gathering in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor ...

A controversial cartoon struck a nerve in India as the country of 1.4 billion surpassed China to become the world’s most populous nation, highlighting sensitivities to what critics say are ...

In presenting the World Bank’s first official global poverty estimates for 2019, it also describes how the world entered the COVID-19 crisis already in a weak position from a global poverty reduction ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

Many countries face escalating debt burdens, declining investments, decreasing international aid and increasing trade ...

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Economic Affairs, Tope Fasua, on Tuesday said the current poverty in Nigeria was inherited from the pre-Independence era. Fasua also admitted that ...

A new projection by the World Bank on poverty should set off alarm bells in the corridors of power in Nigeria. The World Bank has projected that poverty in Nigeria will rise by 3.6 percentage ...

It is unlikely the world can meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, a World Bank report found. Experts have said COVID-19 ended years of progress while war and higher prices are now ...

Shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine mean the world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank said in a new report ...

A controversial cartoon struck a nerve in India as the country of 1.4 billion surpassed China to become the world’s most populous nation, highlighting sensitivities to what critics say are ...