Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

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Cornell researchers have developed a new machine-learning approach to mapping poverty, helping policymakers better identify ...

This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015. At the global level more than 800 million people are still living in extreme poverty. Globally, 300 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty ...

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Billionaires’ wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, a top anti-poverty group reported on Monday as some of the world’s political and ...

According to latest World Bank estimates, the share of Africans who are poor fell from 56% in 1990 to 43% in 2012. The report argues that the poverty rate may have declined even more if the quality ...

A Unicef report has found that child income poverty rates in the United Kingdom are the highest among the world’s richest countries. The region ranked bottom of the table for changes in those ...