Press Releases
- New data show 48% of people in Angola are poor
22 January 2018 -
Bhutan cuts poverty by roughly half in five years
29 December 2017 - Progress on Poverty: Presidents, Ministers, and International Organizations Advocate Multidimensional Indices for Tracking the SDGs
12 September 2017 - Half the world’s poor are children
1 June 2017
- Beyond $1.90 a day: why the World Bank is rethinking who is poor
1 November 2016
- UN Summit: Latin American countries take the lead in pressing for a new global poverty measure
23 September 2015 - Latest figures on where 1.6 billion poor people live: New report on global poverty highlights extent of the challenges facing UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals
22 June 2015
- Global Poverty Eradication: governments of Emerging Countries to make the case at the UN for a new poverty measure “to revolutionize development interventions.”
22 September 2014
- One-half of all poor people are ‘destitute’, suggests new research
- La moitié de tous les pauvres sont «démunis», selon une nouvelle étude
13 June 2014
- Over 20 governments pressure UN to change how it measures poverty
20 September 2013
- Groundbreaking index launched to empower women and fight hunger
27 February 2012
- Colombia adopts world’s first poverty reduction plan to use new Oxford University measure
22 August 2011
