When Alan Piazza visited isolated villages in north central China in the 1990s as an economist for the World Bank, he found a place of “almost impossible poverty.

Extreme poverty has been sharply cut. What has changed?

Urging international charities to keep offering aid to Afghanistan, new Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund pledged that his government will "not interfere" in other countries' internal affairs.

Afghanistan's PM urges charities to keep offering aid as nation battles poverty

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resume financing support to Afghanistan for reconstruction. Ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August, the country has been struggling with poverty and a humanitarian crisis.

China urges IMF to help Afghanistan amid rising poverty

Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the country has been struggling to battle poverty. Amid concerns of rising poverty and starvation, various aid agencies distributed food, blankets and cash to nearly 130 displaced families in Kabul.

Nearly 130 displaced families receive aid amid rising poverty in Afghanistan

In order to survive, parents of an Afghan baby girl were forced to sell her for $500 to feed the rest of her starving siblings. The daughter was sold to a stranger, 'who wants her to marry his son' as the country is facing a total collapse.

Starving family sells baby girl for $500 in Afghanistan to make ends meet

On a busy street of Taimani, in the northwest of Kabul, one could see plenty of fruit sellers lined up along the streets. Just as one drives up along this street, a fruit seller, who wasn’t in this business until two weeks ago, stands out.

From professor to fruit seller : a life with dignity in Afghanistan

Some can afford space travel, but for some, managing the one-time meal is rocket science. A harsh reality of the world, which is technologically so advanced that it can achieve anything possible, but the widening of the gap between the rich and poor just can not be ignored.

As COVID-19 creates 'new poor', here's how India is progressing to eradicate extreme poverty

After the withdrawal of US troops US, Afghanistan continues facing catastrophic humanitarian situation. To deal with this situation UN has granted $1 Billion as an humanitarian aid. Watch this video to know more details.

UNHCR warns of a mass exodus in Afghanistan

Since Taliban took control of Afghanistan heartbreaking images, videos and stories have been coming in from the country. Now, UN has warned that that Afghanistan is on the brink of 'universal poverty'.

Afghanistan on brink of complete economy fall and extreme poverty: UN Envoy

The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the impoverished Sahel state of Niger, which until now has been relatively spared in the pandemic, the authorities said Friday.

First Delta case emerges in poverty-stricken Niger

Boris Johnson is in dire straits as of now as the United Kingdom prime minister is facing another backbench rebellion over the Treasury’s spending this autumn. A high-profile Tory MP has hit out at 'intolerable' levels of hunger and poverty in his affluent home counties constituency.

UK PM faces ‘backbench’ rebellion over hunger, poverty in home counties 

The huge increase in government aid prompted by the coronavirus pandemic will cut poverty nearly in half this year from pre-pandemic levels and push the share of Americans in poverty to the lowest level on record, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of a vast but temporary expansion of the safety net.

Pandemic aid programs spur a record drop in poverty

Acute food insecurity has soared 40% this year as recent food price hikes have exacerbated existing pressures from conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said.

Surging food prices fuel 40 per cent jump in global hunger: UN

As Uganda shifted to digital identity cards, nearly one-third of the adults in the African country have been excluded from getting proper access to healthcare and social services.

One-third of Uganda's population excluded from healthcare system: Report

From Lyndon B. Johnson to Indira Gandhi to Xi Jinping, defeating poverty has been the ultimate dream of every politician. Many leaders have waged a war on poverty but has it been a mere war of rhetoric? Watch this report by WION's Palki Sharma to find out.

Gravitas: Why politicians love anti-poverty rhetoric

Did China lie about eradicating extreme poverty? Did it change the criteria and definition of poverty in order to claim victory? WION's Palki Sharma brings you the details.

Gravitas: Did China lie about eradicating poverty?

Chinese President Xi said on Thursday a "human miracle" has been achieved with the country lifting "hundreds of millions of people out of poverty" in a speech to the rural community in the country.

President Xi hails China's 'miracle' in tackling poverty

The early weeks of the Biden administration have brought a surge of support, in the White House and across party lines in Congress, for what could be the most ambitious effort in a generation to reduce child poverty.

Crisis spurs Congress toward big measures to lift families from poverty

Priyanka Chopra Jonas isn’t the kind to let a minute of her life slip away, even when life is on lockdown. While others were perfecting their sourdough starters last spring, Chopra Jonas decided to write her first book — and finished it.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s Week: Fireside Zoom calls and 'Bridgerton' episodes

One in five people in the European Union, or more than 92.4 million of the bloc's population experienced poverty, said a United Nations report. This amounts to 21.

More than 92 million people in EU experience poverty: UN report

Afghanistan's children shudder in harsh winters amid rising violence

Christmas is a little different in Brazil for Jose Ivanildo Leandro da Silva, who is dressed as Santa as he looks to overcome mobility and poverty barriers in the capital Brasilia. Da Silva is disabled and gets about on his skateboard, skirting between traffic to ask for donations for the neediest children of Brazil's capital.

Disabled Santa in Brazil highlights mobility barriers this Christmas

COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed new wave of poverty in Spain. The demands for food banks has now grown immensely in the last few months in the country.

Rise in poverty adding pressure on food banks on Spain

As many as 150 million more children have faced poverty since the coronavirus pandemic struck earlier this year, an analysis by Unicef published on Thursday said.

Coronavirus has dragged 150 million more children into poverty: Unicef

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