Since a lack of reliable data is associated with slow income growth for the poorest, the situation could be even worse than currently observed. As the world grows wealthier and extreme poverty becomes ...

it also describes how the world entered the COVID-19 crisis already in a weak position from a global poverty reduction perspective. During the pandemic, large and unequal job and income losses were ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...