The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Letters: Sabine Goodwin and Maria Marshall, Naomi Duncan and Ron Brewer respond to Gordon Brown’s article calling for companies to work with charities to ease the cost of living crisis for struggling families

Prof. Patnaik argues poverty is a 'relational phenomenon' & Govt. of India's claim of substantial poverty decline is spurious due to changing definition & cumulative underestimation of poverty line. Sinha says standards used to measure undernutrition are wrong & structural inequalities need to be addressed to improve environment & heights…

NEW DELHI: When Rohit Sharma takes India out for the World Cup final on Sunday, he will carry a billion hopes with him, the apex of a journey that began in poverty but has led to a personal fortune of around $25 million and the high-pressure leadership of the national…

Amid skyrocketing poverty and inflation, Argentinians face a stark choice on Sunday between two wildly different presidential candidates. Libertarian Javier Milei has led a disruptive campaign that has galvanised voters and won support from a faction of the traditional far-right. But a shock first-round victory for current Economy Minister Sergio…

Nicolas, a 20-year-old student in Buenos Aires, faces an economic crisis reflected in 143% inflation & increased poverty. Javier Milei, an economist advocating tax cuts & dollarisation, is in a runoff against the Minister of Economy. People are deprived of basic needs & must be resourceful to survive. Lionel Vargas…

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As Argentina gets ready to vote for a new president, over 40 percent of its population live under the poverty line as their budgets are squeezed by triple digit inflation. The two candidates running for president – far-right libertarian outsider Javier Milei and ruling Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa –…

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said some key deprivation data produced by the Government is unreliable.

Sujit Das, 40, manages 20 acres of land in Umerkote, Odisha, where he grows vegetables, runs a duck farm, and a hatchery. The district was the poorest in Odisha, but agri-entrepreneurship has helped reduce poverty levels. Chittaranjan Dhali, a corn trader, dispatches maize-laden trucks and the district has become Odisha’s…