Stanford economic researchers estimate that ending poverty worldwide would cost $170 billion per year, establishing a concrete number for future policies. The study, published in December by ...

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While important gains in reducing global poverty have been made steadily since 1998, the pace of this reduction had slowed considerably in recent years. It was becoming increasingly unrealistic to ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...