New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

FG concurs, plots plans to lift 50m indigents out of penuryFrom Okwe Obi, AbujaThe World Bank has identified a lack of coordination as a major factor hindering efforts to tackle multidimensional ...

This paper empirically analyses whether there is any significant statistical relationship between fiscal decentralisation and multidimensional poverty in Kenya using FE ...

Poverty is a global issue affecting about one-tenth of the people worldwide. It is a relevant concern not only in the developing countries but also to some extent in the developed world. As per 2025 ...

Between 2013-14 and 2022-23, approximately 24.82 crore Indians escaped multidimensional poverty. The headcount ratio fell ...

5 September - 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 ...

Is India’s poverty rate 5% or 24%? A debate over poverty lines, data transparency, and Parliament’s questions reveals how ...

This seminar, as part of the Poverty & Equity Global Practice’s series on identifying a research agenda for welfare measurement led by the Global Solutions Group on Data For Policy, will focus on a ...

Different poverty index reports about the Nigerian situation have been published periodically by the Breton Woods organizations, UN agencies, economic groups and even individual tink tank groups. At ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...

The Federal Government has launched a unified national poverty register alongside a proposed N3.2tn humanitarian and poverty reduction fund, aimed at streamlining interventions, strengthening ...