Kerala eradicates extreme poverty, highlighting cooperatives, social reforms, and left-led governance as a global model.

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To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the “International Poverty Line” ...

At that time, the state government took the decision to eradicate extreme poverty. Kerala has done very well in eradicating poverty from very high levels, as high as Bihar or Odisha to the least in ...

Nearly two million people in Poland lived in extreme poverty in 2024 - including more than 400,000 seniors. One in five older adults was malnourished, according to the latest Poverty Report by the ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

About 700 million people—or 8.5 percent of the global population—live in extreme poverty on less than $2.15 a day, a World Bank report has said. The bank also added that around 3.5 billion people live ...

Latin America finds itself in an interesting predicament. While only the progressive governments are making progress on ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...

NEW DELHI: India's extreme poverty rate has fallen sharply over the past decade after the World Bank updated its international poverty line definition and included updated data in its June upgrade of ...