Despite declines in extreme child poverty, nearly 85 per cent of South Asian children live below USD 8.30/day, indicating ...

Asia's energy story is one of persistent energy poverty, while communities grapple with the health, climate, and economic ...

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker collects a sample from a woman in India MANILA (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic and rise in cost of living have pushed close to 70 million more people in developing ...

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Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could drive an additional 11 million people into poverty in East Asia and the Pacific unless "urgent action" is taken, the World Bank warned in a ...

Tondo, Manila — known for being Asia’s largest garbage dump — is home to thousands living in extreme poverty and daily danger. In this video, I spend 24 hours navigating the chaos, meeting locals, and ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rise in rural wages now taking place across Asia could lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty in the next decade, a new report showed on ...

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A new report by the World Bank and UNICEF has revealed that despite global progress in reducing extreme child poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa has seen no improvement in the past decade, with more than ...