Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

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 ...

In 2015, world leaders set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the UN‘s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to change the world for the better. The very first goal on that list: ...

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 ...

The share of the global population living in extreme poverty fell dramatically from an estimated 36% in 1990 to 9% in 2015. We describe how this decline happened: the extent to which changes within as ...

In the wake of the election, it is clear that we must be conscious not only of America’s choices for itself, but of its effects on the rest of the world. In a recent report from the World Bank, over ...

Christian Aid CEO Patrick Watt warns that climate change is fundamentally altering poverty in developing nations, forcing aid groups to pivot toward climate adaptation strategies. He emphasised that ...

In a real-world test of a new tool to better evaluate anti-poverty policies, a new study shows the economic benefits of expanding electricity access. The answer might seem obvious -- that electricity ...

The complex economic and cultural connections among nations that underpin globalization also make possible stark international comparisons. The inequalities that globalization reveals challenge the ...