The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed about 120 million people into extreme poverty over the last year in mostly low- and middle-income countries, according to estimates by World Bank researchers.

Las manifestaciones de grupos históricamente marginados, como las que se produjeron en la región de América Latina en los meses previos a la pandemia de COVID-19, buscan que se les permita...

Extreme poverty will become a predominantly Sub-Saharan African phenomenon in the coming decade and the continent will be home to the lion’s share of the global poor by 2030. The recently...

One reason behind the slowdown in global extreme poverty reduction is the slow progress in Sub-Saharan Africa. The latest estimates show that the regional poverty rate decreased by 1.6 percentage...

Poverty is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. When poor people are asked in participatory studies what makes them feel poor, they indicate a wide range of deprivations: not having enough to...

One of the twin goals of the World Bank, as well as SDG 1.1, is to reduce extreme poverty by 2030. Measures of absolute poverty, such as poverty at the US$1.90, US$3.20 and the US$5.50...

Poverty does not end when a household crosses the US$1.90 per person per day International Poverty Line (IPL). The IPL was constructed based on the prevailing national poverty lines for some of...

Les régions les plus durement éprouvées sont l’Asie de l’Est et l’Asie du Sud.

1.47 billion people globally are directly exposed to the risk of intense flooding — over a third, almost 600 million, are poor.

1.47 billion people globally are directly exposed to the risk of intense flooding — over a third, almost 600 million, are poor.