G20 leaders to discuss poverty, climate, and Trump’s return
G20 leaders to discuss poverty, climate, and Trump’s return

G20 leaders meet in Brazil on Monday to discuss addressing poverty, boosting climate financing and other multilateral initiatives that could yet be upended by Donald Trumps impending return to the White House. US President Joe Biden will participate his last summit of the worlds leading...

32 lakh pensioners at risk of poverty in Germany
32 lakh pensioners at risk of poverty in Germany

New data requested by the left-wing populist BSW party shows around 3.2 million pensioners in Germany are at risk of poverty. Sahra Wagenknechts party, only formed this year, frequently campaigns on such issues. Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of the new left-wingBSWparty named after her, lamented...

CA for building “World of Three Zeros”
CA for building “World of Three Zeros”

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has delivered a compelling call to action for world leaders to build a World of Three Zeros, a world free from poverty, unemployment, and net carbon emissions, reports BSS. He made the call in a video message played at the G20 Social Summit held in Rio de...

Over 4 crore Bangladeshis trapped in extreme poverty: UNDP report
Over 4 crore Bangladeshis trapped in extreme poverty: UNDP report

Some 4.17 crore people in Bangladesh are living in extreme poverty, with 6.5% of the population facing severely dire conditions, according to a latest report. The report, titled Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty Amid Conflict, was published jointly by the United Nations...

UN report:1.1 billion people in acute poverty, children most affected
UN report:1.1 billion people in acute poverty, children most affected

A UN report released on Thursday says that over one billion people around the world are living in severe poverty and more than half of them are children. The paper published with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) highlighted that poverty rates were three times higher in...