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

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

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 ...

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

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

is an economic policy analyst in the Economics and Statistics Unit at the Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States in Tamil Nadu, India. He is an alumnus of the Centre of Development Studies, ...

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

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

The World Bank set its US ‘dollar-a-day’ poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Cash measures The ...

Absolute poverty measured by the World Bank's yardsticks is "virtually eliminated" in India, and general policy action cannot be deployed to address the few people earning under $1.9 a day, a member ...