Eliminating extreme poverty—defined as surviving on $2.15 per person per day, in 2017 U.S. dollars—is the United Nations' top priority among 17 sustainable development goals.

SEE ALSO: Google Maps: Tree Density Tells the Story of Income ... get relief to people living in those specific parts of the world. Today, aid workers conduct surveys on the ground in poor areas ...

In an effort to acquire knowledge of the geographical distribution of poverty in Croatia, the World Bank collaborated with partners in the country to develop a detailed, geo-referenced database that ...

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and the World Bank have developed a set of poverty maps for Serbia, which show variability in welfare across the country by combining two sources - the ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...

Real progress has been made in reducing poverty in recent years, particularly in India and China. However, there is still much uncertainty about the numbers. Using the same data, two reports released ...