Almost two thirds of children are living in poverty in the North East’s most deprived neighbourhoods - see how yours compares ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concern over the high poverty rate and food insecurity in Nigeria, despite the modest gains achieved by the Federal Government through various ...

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While over 90% of Filipinos can read and write, just 70% can comprehend what they read — with the disparity reaching its most ...

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These figures represented a significant setback from the 41.7% (19.5 million people) poverty rate from the second ... poverty surged particularly in the country's Northeast (62.9%) and Northwest ...

The worst appears to be hunger and extreme poverty, which could trigger unrest ... Also, 82 million Nigerians, or 64 per cent of the country’s population, may go hungry by 2030, per the UN.

In Dhaka, while the overall poverty rate is lower, there has been a significant deterioration in perceptions of economic conditions among residents. Urban areas witnessed a sharper rise in extreme ...

A leading charity has accused ministers of trying to play down the extent to which benefits cuts will increase poverty ... for Pips and slashing the highest rate of incapacity benefit in half.

The report states that among asylum-seeking and refugee women, the poverty rate is twice that of men ... to surviving as single mothers in a country where you have no rights, raising families ...