Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020

This is the fourth and final blog in a series about how countries can correct course and make progress in global poverty reduction. It identifies key lessons from the pandemic for protecting the…

Ruth Hill, Yeon Soo Kim, Ben Brunckhorst|

This is the third blog in a series about how countries can correct course and make progress in global poverty reduction. It analyses global income distribution since the fallout of the COVID-19…

Nishant Yonzan, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Christoph Lakner|

2019, 70 percent of the global population lived in places where the international poverty line might be too low. For this reason, the World Bank reports global poverty numbers at two higher…

Marta Schoch, Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner, Jed Friedman|

In 2020, the COVID-19 crisis caused the most significant setback to global poverty reduction in decades, with 71 million more people living in extreme poverty in that year compared to 2019. But a…

Marta Schoch, Nishant Yonzan, Ruth Hill, Christoph Lakner|

The World Bank's 2022 Poverty and Shared Prosperity report offers the first comprehensive look at the global landscape of poverty in the aftermath of COVID-19—showing what fiscal policies…

Pablo Saavedra, Luis Felipe López-Calva|