
Climate Change and Poverty: Why Poorer Households Suffer More
Climate change and poverty interact through housing, livelihoods, health, infrastructure and recovery capacity, leaving poorer households with fewer options after shocks.

Climate change and poverty interact through housing, livelihoods, health, infrastructure and recovery capacity, leaving poorer households with fewer options after shocks.

Child labour affects nearly 138 million children. Learn why it persists and how education, social protection and decent work can reduce it.

The cycle of poverty develops when low resources, weak opportunities and repeated shocks reinforce disadvantage across generations—but it is not destiny.

Poverty is shaped by income, prices, jobs, health, services and shocks. Learn how monetary, relative and multidimensional poverty are measured.