Extreme poverty: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?
The world has made immense progress against extreme poverty, but it is still the reality for almost one in ten people worldwide.
Source: ourworldindata.org
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Over 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2021 - an increase of 134 million since the start of COVID-19
On July 12, 2023, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2023 (published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and jointly produced with fellow UN agencies) provided the latest estimates of the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet indicators.
United States World Food Programme United Nations Children Fund International Fund For Agricultural Development World Bank Agenda For Sustainable Development
Source: worldbank.org
Beyond Poverty Alleviation: Envisioning Inclusive Growth in the BRICS Countries
The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) account for almost 42 percent of the world’s population,
Source: orfonline.org
Diet affordability indicators incorporate the latest poverty and inequality data to monitor access to a healthy diet
This blog presents revised diet affordability data from Food Prices for Nutrition. These data incorporate updated income distributions and international poverty lines based on 2017 purchasing power parities (PPPs) from the International Comparison Program...
International Comparison Program World Bank World Bank Live Tufts University World Bank Databank World Bank Poverty
Source: worldbank.org
March 2023 global poverty update from the World Bank: the challenge of estimating poverty in the pandemic
Global poverty estimates were updated today on the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). This update includes new regional poverty aggregates in 2020 and 2021 for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in 2020 for Europe and Central Asia, and the...
Source: worldbank.org
How Much Progress Against Poverty by 2050?
The Sustainable Development Goals commit the world to ending extreme poverty by 2030. More cautiously, the World Bank’s twin goals suggest it can help reduce extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Neither goal can be accomplished unless the extreme poverty line is (finally) fixed rather than constantly being updated.
Source: cgdev.org
Remembering Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion, a former director of the Development Research Group, and influential poverty researcher died on December 24th. We reflect on his legacy and some of the lessons he taught us.
Source: worldbank.org
The end of an era of global income convergence
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 pandemic and assesses that developing countries were hit harder, with uneven recovery
Source: worldbank.org
Estimates of global poverty from WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall
The World Bank has continuously tracked global poverty at least since 1990. This also coincides with the beginning of our contemporary period of widely available household survey data which are needed to measure poverty...
Source: worldbank.org
Global poverty in the 2020s is on a new, worse course
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on health and well-being around the world. In this blog, we report updated nowcasts of global poverty up to 2022. Estimates of global poverty for the years up to 2019 are available in the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform...
Source: worldbank.org