Newsroom of the International Press of Iran. It has been revealed that Iran's Ministry of Labor has published its first official report about poverty in Iran, which claims that 19% of Iranians made ...

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Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election drew mixed reactions among ordinary Iranians, with some fearing a ...

The World Bank says that poverty in Iran fell between 2009 and 2013 to about 8%, although it increased to 10.5% in 2014 - President Rouhani's first year in office. It estimates that 8.2 million ...

Systematic corruption among Iran's political elite, growing poverty with inflation at more than 50%, deadlock in nuclear talks and lack of social and political freedom have left Iran's young and ...

The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

Iran is the world's seventh-largest oil producer ... That cost-of-living crisis has also driven poverty rates higher. About 9.5 million Iranians fell into poverty in the 2010s, according to ...

Social and institutional maltreatment is a catastrophic loss of human potential to society. Removing poverty in Iran Through launching poverty-removal plans, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been able ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

Iran is suffering double-digit inflation, a double-digit poverty rate, and a brain drain brought about by its government’s ...

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) issued a report Friday stating Northern Gaza’s citizens are ...