Researchers from the University of Zurich and Wuhan University have assessed how solar energy resources affect social and economic development to reduce poverty in China, using empirical data from the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2022—The world is unlikely to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 absent history-defying rates of economic growth over the remainder of this decade, according to a new ...

Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent ...

An ad hoc committee will analyze the evidence on key determinants of entrenched poverty and the effectiveness of programs designed to address those determinants to identify policies and programs with ...

An ad hoc committee of experts will conduct a consensus study of the costs of child poverty in the United States and the effectiveness of current efforts aimed at reducing poverty. The committee will ...

Zimbabwe made significant progress along many dimensions in the 2010s. The average child born in Zimbabwe in 2019 is expected to have a higher endowment of human capital at the age of 18 than his/her ...

In order to avoid more than 1.5°C of global warming, the world has eight years to halve its greenhouse-gas (ghg) emissions relative to 2010 levels. The un’s Sustainable Development Goals require ...

Poverty rate reduced sharply from 2001 to 2015 Progress had been driven by urbanization Economic shocks since 2020 slowed the fall in poverty Sept 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

Early in my career, I spent a year working in two refugee camps in southern Mexico, home to indigenous Guatemalans who had escaped the genocide taking place in their homeland a short walk across the ...