Uzbekistan has made poverty reduction a state priority, launching a nationwide programme focused on jobs, social protection, ...

Data recently published by the Department for Work & Pensions shows that the UK has seen the biggest rise in what’s called ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years. There are two ways of describing poverty in ...

Zakath (micro finance of a minority Muslim community) is not merely an act of charity but a system meant to eradicate poverty ...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has promised that his new administration will end absolute poverty. The Prime Mi ...

South Korea's birth rate currently stands at 0.748 in 2024, a slight rise from the record low of 0.721 in 2023. That compares with an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average of 1 ...

Two studies conducted by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) have shed light on the deepening crisis of child poverty in the country. Accordingly, 7.03 million children aged 0-17 ...

Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, efforts ...

John Swinney has admitted that child poverty in Scotland is not falling fast enough as he declared targets to eradicate it a ...

China's dramatic success in lifting an estimated 800 million people out of extreme poverty in just four decades was driven by a meticulously targeted strategy, a leading Chinese scholar says.

Uzbekistan aims to eliminate absolute poverty by 2030, announced Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Wednesday. Mirziyoyev made the remarks when addressing the opening ceremony of the third ...