The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Fighter plane hits residential building in southern Russian city of Yeysk; Ukraine says it is first all-female exchange with Moscow

Study of 22 countries shows children in Russia and Ukraine were most affected by the economic fallout of war, UN says.

Nearly 40 million women have left the workforce in India since the turn of the millennium despite an economic boom. Now, there’s a window to reverse the trend.

Traditional weaving can be an escape from extreme poverty in rural Indonesia, but it doesn’t work for everyone.

A formal identity and a mobile phone are two key weapons in the global fight against poverty.

When I received the disability support pension, for the first time in years I had my head above water. I was part of society again

The most vulnerable are “paying the price” of world events, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will say.

'In a cost of living crisis where food poverty and foodbank use is rising, it’s also utterly sickening'

Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programmes across the global south in what some have dubbed a development revolution. International development agencies across the ideological spectrum have embraced social protection as an effective and efficient instrument to reduce poverty and inequality.