When it was first developed in 1963, the poverty threshold was set at the cost of a minimal diet defined by the U.S.

About one in six children on Prince Edward Island lived below the poverty line in 2023, according to a new report that argues progress is moving too slowly for many families.

The latest study by the state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies, or PIDS, showed that, relative to the World Bank's upper-middle-income country poverty threshold of $8.30 a ...

In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, poverty jumped from 28.7% to 35.3% -a surge of nearly one-fourth within a year. The situation in ...

Poverty in Pakistan has risen to its highest level in 11 years, with nearly 29 per cent of the population now living below ...

Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is officially classified as poor.

CASH transfers like the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) are necessary but not enough to break the intergenerational ...

A new government survey in Pakistan has revealed that around 70 million people are living in extreme poverty amid rising ...

An official survey shows Pakistan’s poverty reduction trend has reversed after 13 years, with rural areas hardest hit and real household incomes shrinking amid inflation and stabilisation measures.

With federal aid that helped thousands of middle-income New Jersey residents reduce their monthly insurance premiums during ...

In a country where 29 per cent of the population — around 70 million people — survive below the poverty line of Rs8,484 per month, according to the HIES, the ruling elite has no qualms about indulging ...

Without major and sustained intervention by the Nova Scotia government the number of children living in poverty will remain in the tens of thousands, according to a new report.