NEARLY eight in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—or 887 million of the 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air ...

While presenting the findings here at the World Bank's local office, Wieser said that higher growth and lower inflation ...

Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the ...

[00:00] - Those at the bottom of the income distribution, the poorest and the most vulnerable, have to be also more proactively engaged in that process of economic growth and benefiting from it. - ...

Nearly 700 million people around the world are classified as living in extreme poverty, surviving on less than USD2.15 per day per person. The UN declared Oct. 17 as the International Day for the ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to ...

The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over the rising poverty in Nigeria, saying that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers live below the poverty line. The World Bank stated this in its ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

World Bank says Pakistan’s 3% growth rate is too low to reduce poverty; urges reforms in tax, exports, and investment sectors ...

The World Bank has questioned Pakistan's recent claims of poverty reduction, observing that only limited groups within the ...

The Nebraska Legislature mandated the plans, but it isn’t funding any of the follow-through, and federal cuts are likely to ...

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...