Inflation has robbed them of a third of their income since the post-2009 global financial crisis, statistics show.
US-Israel war on Iran drives up fuel and food costs, putting 32.5 million people at risk of poverty worldwide.
India is lifting its people out of income-based poverty but not moving them ahead for better upward mobility and economic opportunity. A World Bank policy paper proposes shifting welfare analysis from merely counting those below the poverty line to measuring how far people are from a reasonable standard of living.