The number of people unable to afford a standard living decreased last year, but relative poverty among single-parent families and absolute poverty both increased. Relative poverty refers to a ...

Investments on a grand scale in infrastructure in rural regions, such as roads, irrigation, and internet connectivity, help link farmers to markets, boosting incomes Post-1978 reforms helped boost ...

Apparently, Koreans in general are richer than they used to be. Relatively, however, more people are poorer than before. Research shows that the relative poverty ratio has nearly doubled since 1992.

A review by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) revised several years of poverty statistics: there was a year when the number of people living at risk of poverty jumped by more than 150,000 ...

An additional 50,000 pensioners will be living in relative poverty next year as a result of cuts to the winter fuel payment, the government's own estimates have revealed. Earlier this year, Chancellor ...

Extreme poverty in Poland fell to 5.2 percent in 2024 from 6.6 percent a year earlier, according to a new Poverty Watch report by EAPN Poland, the Polish branch of the European Anti-Poverty Network.

The minister for communities believes an anti-poverty strategy due to be published next month from his department is a "realistic" but long-term plan to tackle poverty. Gordon Lyons made the comments ...