With the rising costs of out-of-pocket health care expenditures, currently estimated at half a trillion dollars globally, the number of people affected by this trend is expected to increase…

The word "convenience" in the single-use plastics context, needs urgent redefinition, especially in the East Asia region where several countries top the list in terms of plastics leaking…

This blog post is part of a series for the 'Bureaucracy Lab', a World Bank initiative to better understand the world's public officials and explores a range of approaches to…

As part of the World Bank’s September 2019 global poverty update published a few weeks ago, metadata on the comparability of poverty estimates within countries over time was added to the PovcalNet…

À l'occasion de l'actualisation des données sur la pauvreté dans le monde, publiées par la Banque mondiale il y a quelques semaines, le site PovcalNet s'est enrichi de métadonnées…

From farms to towns, women are a major provider of food and food security for their families, but women in half of the world still struggle to access their equal land and property rights in spite…

この25年間に、極度の貧困を削減する取組みは確実に進展し、世界人口に占める貧困層の割合は1990年の36％から、2018年には推定8.6％まで縮小されました。この期間に、何億人もの人々の生活水準も改善されました。

It is undeniable that progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty over the last quarter century—from 36 percent of the world population in 1990 to an estimated 8.6 percent in 2018—and that…

Les progrès sur le front de la lutte contre la pauvreté sont indéniables, mais ils n’ont pas été homogènes d’un pays à l’autre et tendent actuellement à marquer le pas.

Es innegable que se han logrado avances en la reducción de la pobreza extrema en los últimos 25 años —disminuyendo del 36 % de la población mundial en 1990 al 8,6 % en 2018— y que las condiciones…