The richest people in the world who came from poor families are ranked in ascending order of their net worth, as of September 25. At Insider Monkey we are obsessed with the stocks that hedge funds ...

The nearly 7.8 billion people in the world earned $134.6 trillion in income in 2019, the most recent year for which there is data. ... Click here to see the world’s 27 poorest countries.

Good news: Economists at Oxford have come up with a better method for measuring global poverty. Bad news: There are way more poor people than previously thought.

The nearly 7.8 billion people in the world earned $134.6 trillion in income in 2019, the most recent year for which there is data. ... Click here to see the world’s 27 poorest countries.

The world's 62 richest people now own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the global population, according to a new study by Oxfam.. The data, released ahead ...

Many believe that one of the biggest challenges poor people face is hunger, but economist Abhijit Banerjee argues that the economics of poverty are often much more nuanced. Banerjee looks at how ...

Poor in this case means low-income, by the World Bank’s current definition: any country with a gross national income per capita of $1,035 or less in 2012 dollars. There are 36 such countries in ...

Telecom companies invented business models that served the poor, such as pay-as-you-go cellphone plans. Entrepreneurs started new organizations that allowed people to use phones to send money, obtain ...

What has followed is a remarkable development: It is becoming cost-effective, even profitable, to serve the world’s poorest two billion people—whether they are online or not.