Using nationally representative household consumption surveys from 23 countries that together account for 50% of the world’s poor, we estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% (from a baseline of ...

We tell ourselves that global poverty is just too big, too distant, and too intractable an issue for us to solve. If the world could afford to solve it, or something like hunger, then surely somebody ...

In 1850, 94% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. Today, we've managed to bring that number down to roughly 10 ...

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

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 ...

Discover how the International Poverty Line defines global poverty, its critique, and impacts. Learn about its uses and how it differs from the Federal Poverty Level.

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Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...

It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to ...

The Mexican government on Friday claimed that for the first time in history more  Mexicans are categorized as middle class ...