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 ...

Two billion people globally suffer from moderate to severe food insecurity and widespread micronutrient deficiencies. This ...

Many households bear disproportionate burden that prevents them from escaping poverty, weathering crises and managing ...

The World Bank’s poverty line is inaccurate and out of date – an error that obscures the feebleness of market solutions ...

A World Bank study reveals that nearly all poor populations in MENA are exposed to extreme climate hazards like heat, drought ...

Gloria Achieng, a BBC journalist in Kenya, talks us through the causes of period poverty and some of the reusable products available. Patricia Kajumba, founder of Glow Up Pads in Uganda, explains how ...

The UN defines poverty as severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, clean drinking water, sanitation, ...

The global goal of eradicating extreme poverty, defined as living on $2.15 per person per day, by 2030 remains a formidable ...

Mahabub Hossain's room was next to mine at the Agargaon campus of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). I had ...

With 3.5 billion people living in poverty, it’s time to invest in potential, not just patch up crises and ask for more ...

Economic activities have taken the centre-stage of human life. Everyone has to earn his own money to sustain - to obtain food, shelter, education, health and entertainment.

The Nigerian government is poised to receive about $635 million from the World Bank to bring Nigeria's total loan from the ...