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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.
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.
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
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...
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...