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Lebanon: Rising Poverty, Hunger Amid Economic Crisis

While nearly 94 percent of the lowest income quintile reported difficulty paying for essentials, 26 percent of those with the highest incomes ...

Madagascar's forgotten crisis: poverty and hunger on the front line of ...

Madagascar, situated in the Indian Ocean off the coast of southern Africa, has one of the world's highest poverty rates, exacerbated by recurring natural ...

COVID-19 and Global Poverty: Are LDCs Being Left Behind?

The incidence of extreme poverty, for instance, increases worldwide by 'only' 0.58 percentage points with the partial pass-through (instead of ...

Global Food Crisis: 10 Countries Suffering the Most From Hunger

Hunger is worsening and becoming increasingly complex as conflict spreads, food prices and poverty rates rise, and climate shocks become more ...

COVID-19, school closures, and child poverty: a social crisis in the ...

From a policy perspective, legislators should consider providing regular income support for households with children during the impending ...

Global crisis | UNCTAD

We need urgent action by the G20 and international financial institutions to increase liquidity and fiscal space so that governments can provide safety nets for ...

Poverty in the UK: statistics - The House of Commons Library

This will bring the rate to 18.0% in 2024/25, the same rate as 2019/20. This is because real incomes are set to fall, and income is adjusted for ...

The crises inherent in the success of the global food system

... increased vulnerability to crises, even on a global level. In the research ... The latter applies on a macro-level, especially to poor and import ...

The world's worst humanitarian crises: 8 to know in 2024

” The country had cut its poverty rates from 69% to 27% between 1995 ... increasing national inflation rates. In 2016, the Ethiopian ...

The Emerging Global Debt Crisis and the Role of International Aid

Meanwhile, the collective debt of developing countries reached about $9 trillion in 2022, with approximately 60 percent of the world's 75 ...

Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis - Science

The COVID-19 crisis could also have contributed to rising rates of ... in global poverty in 2020 that we document is unprecedented. The ...

World in the midst of a 'hunger pandemic': conflict, coronavirus and ...

Unabated conflict, economic disruptions fuelled by the pandemic, and the escalating climate crisis have deepened poverty and pushed millions more people into ...

End Extreme Poverty NOW - Global Citizen

The poorest people on our planet continue to suffer. They lack access to food, healthcare, and education. They deal with the realities of climate change — ...

Robust COVID Relief Bolstered Economy and Reduced Hardship for ...

Rather than rising as typically happens during recessions, one measure of annual poverty fell by 10 million people in 2020 — the largest amount ...

The Global Financial Crisis | Explainer | Education | RBA

Until September 2008, the main policy response to the crisis came from central banks that lowered interest rates to stimulate economic activity, which began to ...

Global Warming of 1.5 ºC — - IPCC

... poverty. The translations of the SPM ... Why is it necessary and even vital to maintain the global temperature increase below 1.5°C versus higher levels?

fighting hunger effectively requires solutions from global civil society

International measures to effectively fight hunger face challenges such as lack of investment. The multiple global crises are also an ...

IMF Austerity is Alive and Increasing Poverty and Inequality

IMF-required austerity is significantly associated with rising inequality, by increasing the income share to the top ten percent at the expense ...

Food Price Crisis 101 - Center for American Progress

And in developing countries, where 60 to 80 percent of a family's income is spent on food, every 20 percent increase in food prices will push ...

Intersecting global crises threatening SDGs, impacting food supplies ...

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 reveals that the convergence of increased fighting, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and the long-term climate ...