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 ...

[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. - ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

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

Nearly nine percent of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $2.15 a day, according to the ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

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

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

The World Bank said that its models for measuring poverty were meant to provide general trends, not statistically precise ...

The World Bank claimed on Tuesday that Pakistan's poverty rate decreased to 22.2% and it would sink further to pre-Covid levels this year, yet reiterating that the country's current economic growth ...

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