A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

Poverty in Lao PDR declined from 33.5% to 23.2% in the last decade lifting half a million people out of poverty. The country has met the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of halving extreme ...

How does rural poverty develop, what accounts for its persistence, and what specific measures can be taken to eliminate or mitigate it? About one-fifth of the world's population is afflicted by ...

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.

An anti-poverty strategy was first committed to 18 years ago in an effort to tackle deprivation. Dorset Community Foundation has created a website to make its latest report more accessible.