The report identifies how governments can optimize fiscal policy to help correct course. Progress in reducing global poverty has essentially halted: by 2030, nearly 7 percent of the world's population ...

The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty ... lived in that region than in the rest of the world combined. By 2030, under ...

Despite considerable progress in the fight against poverty since 1990, over 800 million people, 70% of whom are women, still live in extreme poverty. The new Sustainable Development Agenda will now ...