The recent demise of actor Farooq Sheikh prompts me to share with you a dialogue from the film Saath Saath which I must have repeated a zillion times in my talks Farooq Sheikh was the main protagonist ...

About 75.24 million people were living in extreme poverty in India during 2022-23, a massive drop from 344.47 million in 2011-12.

The new poverty line for Pakistan, which is a lower middle-income country, is set at $4.20 per person per day, up from $3.65, said Christina Wieser, the senior poverty economist of the World Bank ...

Two studies, Azim Premji University (2021) and Gupta et al (2021), reach the conclusion that COVID-19 led to a widespread increase in poverty.Two studies, Azim Premji University (2021) and Gupta et al ...

While poverty levels of 37% in 2004-05 fell to 22% by 2011-12, it has since fallen only by 18% in 2022-23, the paper finds based on its own calculations. The paper, ...

Ministers in Northern Ireland have reached agreement on a long-delayed anti-poverty strategy. The announcement was made at Stormont Castle by First Minister Michelle O'Neill, deputy First Minister ...

Michelle O'Neill spoke at a press conference after the Executive meeting on Thursday A draft anti-poverty strategy agreed by the Northern Ireland Executive could probably "go further", the first ...

Poverty buttons don't only make sense from a manufacturing point of view, though. They also indirectly tell consumers to spend more. If you don't want your brand-new car to look cheap and filled ...

The World Bank on Thursday projected that poverty in Nigeria will increase by 3.6 percentage points over the next five years, rising through 2027. This was contained in the Bank’s Africa’s ...

Child poverty rates in larger families have soared in Scotland in the wake of the Tory cap on welfare payments. Over 40% of kids in homes with three or more children are now languishing in poverty ...

An extra 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into relative poverty by these changes, according to the government's own impact assessment. Image source, PA Media Image caption, ...

The number of children in poverty in the UK has reached its highest level since comparative records began in 2002. In the year to April 2024, there were 4.45 million children living in a household ...