The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The World Bank Group aims to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030 ... By implication, all trend graphs with a break in the series represent non-comparable data displayed on the same figure over ...

President Ajay Banga convened a virtual meeting on Wednesday to discuss Sri Lanka’s development priorities and deepen ...

Less than two years later, a headline chart in another major World Bank publication, Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy, showed that the number of people living in ...

The report, produced by the Bank's Partnership for Economic Inclusion, underscores the effectiveness of these programs, ...

Extreme poverty is set to rise this year for the first time in more than two decades, with coronavirus expected to push up to 115 million people into that category, the World Bank has said.

The World Bank focuses on poverty reduction and the improvement of living standards worldwide by providing low-interest loans, interest-free credit, and grants to developing countries for ...

As inflation rises, low labour income has pushed an estimated 14 million Nigerians into poverty in 2024. This is according to the World Bank’s latest report on Macro Poverty Outlook: Country-by ...

The World Bank Kenya office has said 4 in 10 Kenyans live below poverty line earning less than a dollar a day. The fresh statistics clarify the confusion on the income classifications which placed ...

The World Bank ’s latest Policy Research Working Paper mentioned that the extreme poverty count fell nearly 12% points to 10.2% in 2019. The decline in the rural areas was much higher than in ...