Recently, the World Bank came out with an update on the methodology and level of its poverty line. What does this update say ...

Shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine mean the world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank said in a new report ...

世界銀行は2022年10月5日、新報告書「貧困と繁栄の共有2022年版：進路の修正」（Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course）を発表しました。 同報告書では、今後10年間に歴史を覆すような経済成長率を達成できなければ、2030年までに極度の貧困をなくすという目標を達成することは難しいと指摘 ...

Russian poverty rates will return to 2007 levels this year as the economy continues to contract and inflation reduces people's purchasing power, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

The 39 economies classified as facing conflict or instability are set to be home to 60% of those who live in extreme poverty ...

Dozens of protestors call for an end to fossil fuel investments and IMF debt for low-income countries during the annual ...

COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and other crises have dealt the biggest setback to global poverty reduction in decades. 2020 alone saw the largest one-year increase in extreme poverty since global ...

Remarkably, Bhutan managed to increase consumption among its poorest households even as GDP per capita fell by nearly 11 percent in 2020.

The World Bank said on Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021, wiping out more than three years of progress in ...

FILE - A protester depositor shows her mobile phone that she films with during a protest outside a Bank Audi branch in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Poverty in Lebanon tripled over ...

OPINION: Poorer countries had to use their fiscal space to keep up loan repayments to the World Bank while member countries didn’t, writes Isobel Frye. Thursday, June 26, 2025.

It said new 2009 estimates compiled by the bank show that weaker economic growth will push 46 million more people below the poverty line of $1.25 a day than was expected before the crisis emerged ...