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 ...

How can we know whether the world poverty counts are accurate? The first table of the World Bank's World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty shows that the number of people living on less ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

When it was first introduced, many lauded microfinance as the ... the concept was celebrated as the desperately needed key to solving poverty in countries around the world, and was quickly thrust into ...

Employing a rigorous interdisciplinary approach, the lab combines empirical evidence, academic expertise, and practical engagement to address global poverty challenges. The core mission involves ...

This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015. At the global level more than 800 million people are still living in extreme poverty. Globally, 300 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty ...

An absolute poverty line is intended to represent constant purchasing power over commodities in different places and at different dates. An example is the World Bank’s international poverty line of $1 ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...