The novelist and critic Forrest Reid was born at 20 Mount Charles, Belfast, on June 24 1875 into an Ulster-Scots and ...

According to the poverty and equity brief published by World Bank in April, extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2% in 2011- 12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million ...

Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above this line,” the World Bank had said in its ‘Poverty & Equity ...

About 75.24 million people were living in extreme poverty in India during 2022-23, a massive drop from 344.47 million in 2011-12.

These statistics refer to relative poverty, but on every other measure – from the number of children in destitution or near destitution, to a definition of what is needed for a dignified life, to a ...

Genteel poverty is not dynamic. PBS is dominated by the shows it buys from Britain. The best of PBS is British, either from the BBC or the commercial channels, which go under the rubric of ITV.

So why is the "ostensibly inoffensive issue of a national park ripping apart the genteel towns of Galloway?" Advocates say it will bring much-needed visitors and revenue to the region, which ...

The official poverty rate, as measured by the US Census, is seriously outdated. It was developed in 1963 by an economist at the Social Security Administration, and it determined that the threshold ...

A lonely widow who finds love in the form of a small red cat. These are a few of the occupants of the Beidermeier, a New York City hotel for genteel working women.

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

A new report from Food Banks Canada suggests the number of Canadians living in poverty may be higher than previously thought, with the organization estimating 25 per cent could fall under this ...