Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this IMF press briefing. I am Julie Kozack, Director of the Communications Department. Thank you so very much for joining us this morning and, as usual, we are going ...

There are a few lessons in this chart. One, extreme, grinding poverty — here defined as living on the equivalent of $1.90 a day or less — was not just more common in the not too distant past.

Kannur: Dharmadam, the Assembly constituency represented by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, has become the first in the state to be declared free of extreme poverty. The Chief Minister ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Minister of Social Affairs, Saifullah Yusuf, said the government aims to lower extreme poverty to 0 percent by 2026, and the national poverty rate to drop below five percent by ...

KANNUR: Kerala will be officially declared free from extreme poverty on November 1, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday. The announcement was made during a function at the Pinarayi ...

China's dramatic success in lifting an estimated 800 million people out of extreme poverty in just four decades was driven by a meticulously targeted strategy, a leading Chinese scholar says.

The food poverty line, which determines extreme poverty, was set at Rwf356,000, while the general poverty line was set at Rwf560,000 per adult equivalent per year. As such, 27.4 per cent and 5.4 ...

Gbarnga — Limited sitting capacity for students and dusty floors have posed a serious setback for learning activities at the government-run Yoryor Banks Public School in Gwenimah Town, Bong County.

The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the landscape of poverty in the aftermath of an extraordinary series of shocks to the global economy. Global progress in reducing extreme ...