Column: Jointly striving for a world of shared prosperity

by Niu Huayong, Wu Yue

BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Across 112 countries and 6.3 billion people, 1.1 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty, with over half of them being children, according to the 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index report.

Common forms of deprivation include a lack of adequate housing, sanitation, electricity, cooking fuel, nutrition and school attendance, according