The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

India's G20 Summit put SDGs "front and centre", underscoring commitment to accelerate their implementation. India's journey serves as an inspiring example of determination and ingenuity. 12% of targets on track, 50% weak, 30% stalled/reversed. India on track to reduce poverty by half, much ahead of 2030.

Poverty experts have claimed that the Scottish child payment is “significantly reducing child poverty”.

The American Family Act has been introduced to make the Child Tax Credit increase permanent. Democrats are united behind it, but it has zero Republican cosponsors.

The caretaker Dutch government says it will spend an extra 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion) per year to tackle poverty

Microfinance – lending small sums of money to the very poor to lift them out of poverty – has been widely taken up in India. But almost 50 years after its introduction, the results are mixed. Microcredits, mainly for women, have turned Indian social structures upside down. In the agricultural…

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It comes as one headteacher said child poverty is the worst she has seen it during her 25 years in the role.

UN leaders are pushing countries to speed up action on lofty list of 17 goals, from ending poverty to boosting equality.

For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic. Then, it became Russia's war in Ukraine. Throughout both developments, the perils of climate change, poverty and inequality have steadily, increasingly thrummed through each convening of world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York.