Washington, United States -- Conflicts and related fatalities have more than tripled since the early 2000s, fueling extreme poverty, the World Bank said Friday. Economies in fragile and conflict-affected regions have become "the epicenter of global poverty and food insecurity, a situation increasingly shaped by the frequency and intensity of...
Three in four in Lebanon are living in poverty: UN body
That number goes up to 5 out of 6 people when one redefines poverty beyond the usual fiscal lines and adds social indicators to it.
A lot is at stake for poor in Tunisia
The country's economy is witnessing deterioration as sources of income decline, unemployment rises to 18 percent and rising debt necessitates a loan from the IMF.
Lebanon migrant workers need ‘urgent’ help
78 percent of the country's population lives in poverty, higher than last year's figure of 55 percent.
Lebanon families ‘spend 5 times minimum wage’ on food
The Mediterranean country is battling what the World Bank has described as one of the planet's worst financial crises since the 1850sWorld hunger surges to 15-year high as COVID-19 stifles food access
As many as 811 million people – about a 10th of the global population – were undernourished in 2020, a UN report said.
