Yet there are still hundreds of millions of our fellow human beings living in extreme poverty and as many millions suffering from hunger. The fact is that there is enough food produced and wealth ...

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.

projecting that 622 million people will still live in extreme poverty by 2030 despite decades of global efforts to end hunger and want. This stark reality underscores the worsening challenges ...

The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...