A new study Industrial Energy Efficiency Versus Energy Poverty in the European Union: Macroeconomic and Social Relationships, ...

Global poverty reduction has slowed to a near standstill, with 2020-2030 set to be a lost decade. Progress has stalled amid multiple crises and shocks, impacting low-income countries the hardest and ...

The Poverty and Equity Briefs (PEBs) highlight poverty, shared prosperity and inequality trends for over 100 developing countries. The briefs are released twice a year for the Spring and Annual ...

As many as one in five Canadian households can be considered to be in energy poverty, according to researchers from McGill University. Energy poverty occurs when households cannot afford or access the ...

Things… aren’t great in the world right now. If it feels like the world isn’t making the progress we need on climate change, equality, and poverty, that’s ...

Eradicating extreme poverty globally, as outlined in the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, is achievable only if inequality and discrimination against women and girls is eradicated first. Faustine ...

The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) promotes global awareness and understanding of the work of the United Nations through its network of United Nations Information Centres ...

Bangladesh reduced poverty significantly between 2010 and 2022, lifting 34 million people out of poverty while improving living standards and access to essential services such as electricity, ...

Each year Americans across the country take time to recognize and honor the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his birth month of January. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black ...

India has become one of the most equal societies in the world, ranking fourth globally in income equality with a Gini Index of 25.5, according to the latest World Bank data. India stands next only to ...