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 ...

Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential goods. Jason Hickel, Michail Moatsos and Dylan Sullivan show that this data ...

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 ...

Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and GrameenBank founder Muhammad Yunus discussed his lifelong goal of reducing global poverty and promoting economic and social opportunities Wednesday afternoon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kate Schecter, president and CEO of World Neighbors, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss progress and setbacks in promoting economic development in some of the world’s poorest countries.

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 ...