Two billion face severe financial hardships when paying out-of-pocket for necessary medical treatment, according to a joint World Health Organization-World Bank report.
Climate activists and anti-poverty campaigners are calling for an emergency meeting of world leaders on the global food crisis at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month.
As the first-ever Africa Climate Summit kicked off in Nairobi, Kenya, an analysis by Oxfam found that rich nations have delivered just a small fraction of the aid that East African nations say they need to meet their climate goals.
Nearly 70 million more people lived in extreme poverty in developing Asian countries last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rising living costs, a Philippines-based development bank has said.
By 2050, nearly 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas, making the proliferation of informal settlements inevitable – unless world governments take bold action.
