The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — down from 11 percent in 2013, reflecting continued but slowing ...

Away from the luxury of the monarchy in the Elizabethan era, life for ordinary people was ... or support for anyone who fell on hard times. Poverty was mostly considered to be your own fault ...

After World War II, East Asia underwent perhaps the most dramatic large-scale poverty reduction in modern history along ... in recent decades after a period of moderate growth.

Only Uganda has had a higher annual poverty reduction during the same time period. Ethiopia is one of the most equal countries in the world and low levels of inequality have, by and large, been ...

THE Tories and their Liberal Democrat collaborators drove 30 per cent of Britain’s population into poverty in the first three years of their coalition, new figures revealed yesterday. According to the ...

MSPs have backed the principle of tackling period poverty by making sanitary products available to all free of charge. All parties backed a bill put forward by Labour's Monica Lennon in its first ...

After World War II, East Asia underwent perhaps the most dramatic large-scale poverty reduction in modern history along ... in recent decades after a period of moderate growth.