The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations.

The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their ...

People re-locate for various reasons, both legal and illegal, often risking their lives to escape from political oppression, persecution, war and poverty, as well as to be reunited with family and ...

Each year since the turn of the millennium, a cast of aid workers, bureaucrats and philanthropists, who often claim credit for this extraordinary plunge in extreme poverty, has met on the ...

Sept. 24, 2024 Until fairly recently the majority of humanity lived in what we would now consider extreme poverty. Just two centuries ago, about three-quarters of the world were extremely poor.

Hunger and poverty are not mere moral imperatives; they are pivotal challenges intricately linked to some of the most pressing global crises, including climate change, public health emergencies, and ...

Argentina’s poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President ...

About 52.9% of Argentines were mired below the poverty line in the first half of the year, up from 41.7% in the second half of 2023, according to government data published Thursday.

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Argentina's poverty rate rocketed to 52.9% in the first half of 2024, the government's INDEC statistics agency said on Thursday, surging from 40.1% a year earlier.

Closing the season, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the Nobel economics prize on Monday, with specialists on ...

Poverty in Argentina rose to over 52 percent of the population in the first six months of self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei’s presidency, according to data released Thursday by ...