The Paris Agreement was meant to mark a turning point. Ten years later, emissions keep rising. At COP30, much is at stake.

The alliance also faces hurdles from sweeping cuts and frozen foreign aid. Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump ...

Gender inequality continues to fuel poverty, with women overrepresented in low-paying and informal work. UN Women calls for ...

The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, ...

Doha is hosting the Second World Summit for Social Development this week with world leaders, experts and youth meeting to ...

In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...

UN Secretary General António Guterres has urged the international community to increase its efforts in combating poverty and ...

For almost two decades, we have been told the reassuring story of Pakistan’s steady decline in poverty from 64 per cent in 2001-02 to almost 22 per cent in 2018-19. While social indicators in the ...

The ongoing narrative of stability in Pakistan's economy, as advanced by official sources, starkly contrasts with the socio-economic hardships faced by a significant portion of the population. Despite ...

Poverty rate reduced sharply from 2001 to 2015 Progress had been driven by urbanization Economic shocks since 2020 slowed the fall in poverty Sept 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty ...

Cristina Crudu looks across her apple trees and laments that her business may soon go bankrupt due to the economic stresses Moldova has suffered since Russia's full-scale invasion of neighboring ...