Watkins said the percentage of global extreme poverty has dropped from 52 percent to 25 percent, according to he project's statistics, but it’s still not enough. “It’s true — in the past few decades, ...

Last year, Central Park’s Great Lawn played host to the first-ever Global Citizen Festival. Unlike attendees at most free concerts, the 60,000 who came had to do more than just show up to get in. Fans ...

Continuing its efforts to alleviate poverty worldwide, Caterpillar Inc. and the Caterpillar Foundation are making a $2.5 million investment in The Global Poverty Project. The investment will support ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

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 ...