Around700 million people globally live in extreme poverty, unable to afford food, water, housing, healthcare and education. Income and wealth inequality lead to a lack of opportunity, limiting upward mobility in lower-income countries, especially in rural areas and for women. We are a global bu...
According to the World Bank, BRI transport projects could, by 2030, help lift 7.6 million people out of extreme poverty and 32 million people out of moderate poverty globally. "The more we study the BRI and witness its continuous advancement, the more we can appreciate the vision and the wi...
To improve the lives of their citizens, developing countries need to be able to trade globally. Unfortunately, that’s sometimes easier said than done. Now, a new initiative has been launched by the Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL) to ...
In poor and middle-income countries, many children are still too ill-fed to reach their cognitive potential. Globally, 22% of under-fives—roughly 150m children—are malnourished to the point of stunting. That means their brains are likely to be stunted, too. Half the world’s children ...
The Mozambican farm is just one of many projects in which China shares its technology with its worldwide partners to stimulate economic vitality. Rewards are reaped on both sides. Over the past decade, China has stepped up technology innovation to power growth, both domestically and globally, pra...
affects household budgets globally, forcing families to cut back on spending and even limit their ability to save and invest. This situation significantly affects many low and middle-income families both in developing and developed countries, which further exacerbates poverty levels and economic ...
However, studies of how people engage with data and make decisions within socio-scientific crisis are in their infancy due to the limited focus on decisions-making within complex socio-scientific issues (Herman et al., Citation2021). This reality is especially complicated among communities made ...
695m people in Africa are either poor or face the risk of falling into poverty. This represents 50% of the continent’s population. The urgent need for action to rescue the SDGs is evident. Thankfully, the situation is far from being as hopeless as it is often perceived. Embracing the ...
Poverty status in the U.S. is assigned to people whose income falls under a certain threshold, which is set by theDepartment of Health and Human Services (HHS).2U.S. poverty rates, or the percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty, are calculated by the U.S.Census Bureau.3 ...
Financial hardship for many, persistent poverty, and a dispirited populace that could be ripe for social and political unrest are just a few of the effects of income inequality. How Can We Fix Income Inequality? To reduce income inequality, governments and private sectors must address its various...