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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Poverty is falling in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, but there is no reason to celebrate, says a new World Bank report. Euractiv is part of the Trust Project 13-10-2005 11:00 2 min.

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 ...

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.