The global fight against extreme poverty has stalled for a second consecutive year, according to the 2025 Fordham Pope Francis Global Poverty Report, which tracks access to seven basic human needs ...

Five years ago, around 650 million people lived in poverty across the globe. Today, that number has climbed to more than 800 million. In other words, one out of every ten people on Earth still ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person sleeps on a sidewalk in Los Angeles. California's steep housing costs are pushing more people into poverty, the report ...

As extreme weather events become more frequent and the impacts of climate change become stronger, countries around the world are strengthening their decarbonization efforts. The 2016 Paris Agreement ...

California tied with Louisiana for having the highest poverty rate in the country. Census Bureau figures showed the state's Supplemental Poverty Measure stood at 17.7% in 2024. That's about 7 million ...

The Presidency has disputed the latest economic report by Nigeria’s biggest multilateral lender, the World Bank, which estimated that 139 million citizens were living in poverty, describing the figure ...

DHAKA, November 25, 2025 — Bangladesh reduced poverty significantly between 2010-2022, lifting 34 million people out of poverty while improving living standards and access to essential services like ...