The Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) seeks to understand poverty beyond monetary deprivations (which remain the focal point of the World Bank’s monitoring of global poverty) by including access ...

Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above this line,” the World Bank had said in its ‘Poverty & Equity ...

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support.” February 2025 February 6, 2025 Dispatches ...

India News: India's extreme poverty dropped from 27.1% to 5.3% in a decade, even after World Bank raised its global poverty line. 270 million lifted out of poverty.

Listen to article. ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has revised the global income thresholds used to measure poverty, resulting in a big increase in Pakistan's poverty headcount, which now stands at 44.7%.

On May 21, elderly Korean women from both regions who have lived through hardship, facing discrimination and poverty, ... Meanwhile, Sakuramoto has also been targeted in hate speech rallies.

The World Bank has updated its global poverty lines. This latest revision uses 2021 purchasing power parities, as well as updated national poverty lines that better capture countries’ household ...

The new poverty line for Pakistan, which is a lower middle-income country, is set at $4.20 per person per day, up from $3.65, said Christina Wieser, the senior poverty economist of the World Bank ...

In every corner of the Philippines, you’ll meet hardworking people who wake up before sunrise, commute for hours, work long shifts, then do it all again the next day – just to survive.

The United Nations recognizes the need to counter discrimination, xenophobia and hate speech. Hate speech incites violence and undermines social cohesion and tolerance. Therefore, 18 June was ...

The speakers will identify the gains for children and for society as a whole from ending child poverty and the gains for workers, families and the economy from ending bad jobs. We will discuss some of ...

06/09/2025 June 9, 2025. In the German capital Berlin, one in four children grow up in poverty. Those who live in the city's eastern district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf tend to face many obstacles in ...