A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Back in 2022, sunglasses-wearing U2 frontman and rock star philanthropist Bono gave one of those long interviews ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

As extreme weather events become more frequent and the impacts of climate change become stronger, countries around the world are strengthening their decarbonization efforts. The 2016 Paris Agreement ...

A new study by U.S.-based academics has found that ending global poverty could be “surprisingly affordable,” requiring about 0.3% — or $318 billion — of global gross domestic product (GDP) to reduce ...

UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action, or CEGA, is leading a global collaboration to study cost-effective methods to alleviate poverty globally. CEGA is a research innovation hub aiming to ...

A report issued during a United Nations event for World Day of the Poor shows that efforts to alleviate global poverty have slowed. The annual Pope Francis Global Poverty Report released by Jesuit-run ...

Nolvia M. is a pulperia and carniceria owner in Honduras. To grow her business, she joined a microfinance program with a grant partner of San Diego-Based Women’s Empowerment International. Photo ...

In the wake of the election, it is clear that we must be conscious not only of America’s choices for itself, but of its effects on the rest of the world. In a recent report from the World Bank, over ...

Key findings: Economic growth has been far outpacing progress in ending poverty: between 2000 and 2022, global GDP more than doubled, but reductions in human deprivation were modest. At current rates, ...

For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Watch China And ...

9 July 2019 - In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a wealth of action had ...