Eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 is the first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Experts usually measure poverty by using census data and household ...

Poverty-stricken kids as young as ten carry heavy loads in dusty conditions - these stark images show the shocking child labour inside a Bangladesh balloon factory. The young employees at the ...

From space, at night, mild and extreme poverty look the same—dark. Burke and his team at Stanford think they have found a way to improve the study of satellite images using machine learning.