Poverty is defined by China as anyone in rural areas earning less than about $2.30 a day (adjusted for inflation). It was fixed in 2010 and looks at income but also living conditions, healthcare ...

The Madagascar Poverty Assessment report launched in February 2024 provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in Madagascar in the last decade (2012-2022). These are the ...

On the surface, economic conditions look fairly good ... out of 50 did the percentage of 65-year-olds and older living below the poverty line decline. The poverty rates of people aged 65 and ...

More than 300,000 more people are classed as living in very deep poverty since the last report ... to think harder about recruitment, pay, conditions and progression. The Scottish government ...

Nearly half of single-parent households in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the 2021 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions released by the welfare ministry on July 4. The ...

A news report from China Report ASEAN: "3,000 yuan per month," proclaimed Abdulaziz Mehmet, a Uygur worker at Dena Shoes Factory in Kargilik County of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Why is it ...

a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University who researches poverty issues, compiled the data based on the welfare ministry’s comprehensive survey of living conditions in 2021. “Social norms ...

Known on social media as Noly Black, Cuban activist Norge Ernesto Díaz Blak has once again turned to his followers for financial aid, aiming to ...

In 2021, the New York City metro area led the nation in the number of people living in plumbing poverty—a staggering 56,900 people—followed by Los Angeles (45,900 people) and San Francisco ...