In half of the countries in the world, extreme poverty is at or below 3 percent, but that doesn’t mean the fight to eradicate poverty is over in these countries. The World Bank now reports on two ...

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The first table of the World Bank's World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty shows that the number of people living on less than $1 a day grew from 1.18 billion in 1987 to 1.20 billion in ...

The World Bank expects Thailand's poverty rate to continue declining this year, supported by ongoing economic recovery and the government's cash transfer programmes. According to Kiatipong ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The World Bank Kenya office has said 4 in 10 Kenyans live below poverty line earning less ...

The IMFC urged the world community to place renewed emphasis on promoting broadly shared prosperity, sustained growth, and poverty reduction. It emphasized that the IMF, together with the World Bank, ...