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 ...

In about three short months, the Trump administration took a wrecking ball to foreign aid, threatening millions of lives and ...

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 ...

Starting in the 1950s, Latin America and the Caribbean underwent a rapid urbanization process, making it one of the most urbanized regions in the world. Today, 82% of the population lives in ... that ...

In the top diagram I am trying to illustrate what kind of money the post-war Labour government was imagining would be spent over time on four categories of government expenditure: on prevention of ...

Happiness is hard or maybe even impossible to truly measure. Yet every year, researchers try to do it anyway. The World ...

British finance minister Rachel Reeves, facing a weak economy, trimmed her spending plans in a budget update on Wednesday ...

The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates' butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: ...

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 ...

(Representational) The number of children living in poverty in the UK reached a new record, according to data published Thursday, as the government faces a storm of criticism over plans to cut ...

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