In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

DELHI, (August 7, 2024) - A series of massive landslides in the hills of India’s southwestern Kerala state have killed more than 385 people,[1] including children, in the past week and forced at least ...

Last week, UNICEF released its 2025 edition of The State of the World’s Children report—its flagship study and one of the most widely cited annual examinations of children’s wellbeing across the world ...

UNICEF works with governments and other partners to address the impacts of poverty on children and to mitigate poverty-related risks to their health, education and well-being. A look at recent and ...

Global Trends in Child Monetary Poverty According to International Poverty Lines, published jointly by the World Bank and UNICEF, presents estimated trends in child poverty from 2013 to 2022, based on ...

The expansion of the child tax credits under the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child poverty shot back up. This year, 11 states either created a state-level child ...