Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

A new study by U.S.-based academics has found that ending global poverty could be “surprisingly affordable,” requiring about 0.3% — or $318 billion — of global gross domestic product (GDP) to reduce ...

“Joining the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty reflects GAIN’s commitment to collective action. In the current ...

UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action, or CEGA, is leading a global collaboration to study cost-effective methods to alleviate poverty globally. CEGA is a research innovation hub aiming to ...

Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and GrameenBank founder Muhammad Yunus discussed his lifelong goal of reducing global poverty and promoting economic and social opportunities Wednesday afternoon ...

For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Watch China And ...

A report issued during a United Nations event for World Day of the Poor shows that efforts to alleviate global poverty have slowed. The annual Pope Francis Global Poverty Report released by Jesuit-run ...

Nolvia M. is a pulperia and carniceria owner in Honduras. To grow her business, she joined a microfinance program with a grant partner of San Diego-Based Women’s Empowerment International. Photo ...

As extreme weather events become more frequent and the impacts of climate change become stronger, countries around the world are strengthening their decarbonization efforts. The 2016 Paris Agreement ...

(RNS) — Far-right Republicans are insisting on deep cuts in domestic and international poverty programs — though we have ample evidence both are working. (RNS) — The world has made dramatic progress ...

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 ...