That’s the dire conclusion of a recent post by Max Roser, founder of the website Our World in Data. While Roser projects that the number of people in extreme poverty will decline by about 40 million ...

Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential goods. Jason Hickel, Michail Moatsos and Dylan Sullivan show that this data ...

Siddharth Chatterjee, United Nations resident coordinator in China, noted that "China's modernization journey offers a ...

Stakeholders in government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), drawn from various continents have called for urgent implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in order to reduce ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

While studying at the University of Ghana, economist Samuel Ampaw began working on the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey, a long-term data collection effort that monitors the country’s economic ...

Here’s a collection of some of the best data visualisations on global literacy, mortality, birth rates and more that will help put some of the biggest issues surrounding poverty today into perspective ...

9 July 2019 - In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a wealth of action had ...

Kudos to the United Nations for convening a “Summit of the Future.” At this fall’s General Assembly, the summit brought together great minds to discuss issues that bedevil the world. The summit boldly ...

I am writing in support of the recent unanimous vote of the Boulder City Council to place a measure on the November 2025 ballot that would extend Boulder’s existing 0.3% Community, Culture, Resilience ...

The Global Poverty Research Lab aims to use empirical evidence and interdisciplinary engagement to understand drivers, consequences and solutions to poverty issues around the world. As part of its ...