The Left now contends that welfare reform has thrown 3.5 million children into “extreme” third-world-style poverty, living on two dollars per day. This remarkable claim is quickly becoming ...

Since 2000, when Ethiopia had one of the highest poverty rates in the world, households have experienced a decade of remarkable progress in well-being and the country has seen a 33 percent reduction ...

The World Bank report ... The UNDP recently warned that up to one-third of Latin America is at risk of being clawed back in to poverty as the region’s economies face slowing growth rates.