More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF ...

This chart shows the share of children of official primary school age who were not enrolled in primary education in 2024, by ...

*MANILA, Philippines — The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has pushed an estimated 75 million to 80 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year compared with ...

BUENOS AIRES — Colombia's socialist President Gustavo Petro recently recounted that he had an argument at the recent G20 summit with his Argentine counterpart, the ultra-conservative Javier Milei. On ...

Hundreds of millions of people in Asia Pacific region still without access to sanitation or safe drinking water and there are concerns over rising inequality BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – ...

Before Central Asia could recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and return to pre-pandemic levels of poverty reduction, the world was plunged into more uncertainty given the war in Ukraine and rising ...

UNITED NATIONS — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries, according to a report released ...

MANILA, March 16 (Reuters) - The pandemic added 4.7 million more people to Southeast Asia's most extreme poor in 2021, reversing gains made in fighting poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said ...

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