Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

At the same time, many Eastern and Southern European nations have slashed their poverty rates by dozens of percentage points, ...

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

Efforts to combat global poverty remain unchanged in part because of severe cutbacks in American international aid, ...

Ending child poverty is within reach, UNICEF argues, because solutions exist. Meet some of the children and families who are ...

Extreme poverty in developing countries fell 25% since 1990 and may be further halved so long as economic growth rates in those countries maintain their pace, the World Bank said in an annual report ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone ...

While global economics can sometimes seem boring, at its core lies the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. This figure ...

Billionaires in the world’s leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the ...