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, ...

An attempt to send global poverty up the agenda for the forthcoming general election campaign has got underway in St Paul’s Cathedral. International development secretary Douglas Alexander backed the ...

MSNBC will cover the Global Poverty Project’s free concert in Washington, D.C. on April 18. The Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day event hopes to bring awareness to climate change and extreme poverty. No ...

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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 ...