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 ...

China's transformation in the past decades was fascinating, said Former World Bank president Robert Zoellick during an ...

The BNPL data indicates that the story of global poverty over the past few decades is more complex, and more troubling than existing narratives allow. Figure 1 shows that global extreme poverty ...

South Africa sought to salvage international talks on tackling global poverty on Wednesday as finance chiefs of several leading economies skipped a gathering of Group of 20 nations in Cape Town held ...

However, in recent decades, Africa's relationship with the global system has begun to shift, and China has been a key ...

At least 92% of South Sudan’s estimated 11 million people lived below the extreme poverty line in 2024, according to a new ...

"The absence of key officials at the G20 finance meetings further underscores the diminishing commitment to global poverty reduction at a time when it's needed most," said Dirk Willem te Velde ...

South Sudan is projected to experience universal poverty in 2025, driven by a combination of factors such as a decline in oil production and external shocks, the World Bank said in a report released ...

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama committed the United States to achieving newly adopted U.N. global goals by 2030.

the pilot project mapped poverty about as accurately as existing asset index methods, but for more useful measures—including the share of people living below the $2.15 per person per day global ...

Poverty in India is a complex and multifaceted issue influenced by a combination of historical, economic, social, and political factors. Several renowned economists and leaders have provided ...

Northern Ireland's power-sharing government is in breach of a nearly 20-year-old statutory obligation to develop an ...