While macroeconomic recoveries are under way, extreme poverty remains high in countries in special situations, indicating deep-seated structural vulnerabilities. By 2022, extreme poverty had returned to pre-pandemic levels in most countries, except low-income ones, said the World Social Report 2024, t...
necessary to reach this target in each country, assuming an unchanged distribution of consumption within countries. We repeat this exercise for higher poverty lines, $3.65 and $6.85, poverty lines typical of lower- and upper-middle-income countries, respectively11. More countries would need to grow...
China recently achieved its poverty alleviation goal in 2020, by lifting its entire population out of extreme poverty. How did the country do this? In the third episode, Tangen takes a look at China's efforts to pull its population from extreme poverty. CGTN Global Watch...
"The pandemic and global recession may cause over 1.4% of the world's population to fall into extreme poverty," World Bank President David Malpass said in a statement, calling it a "serious setback to development progress and poverty reduction." The report found that many o...
Barring sharp growth gains, an estimated 574 million people, or about 7% of the world's population, would still be subsisting at that same income level by 2030, mostly in Africa, it said. World Bank President David Malpass said the new Poverty and Shared Prosperity report showed ...
Fei LiSpringer Berlin HeidelbergProportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption (FAO)Extreme Poverty Indicator: Proportion of Population Below Minimum Level of Dietary Energy Consumption... 33 Qi Zhang and Fei Li
Over the last few decades, many economies in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced much faster economic growth than other parts of the world. However, many of these economies have not experienced significant poverty reduction. Several factors such as the quality of governance may limit the expected ...
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Globally, one-in-six children lived in extreme poverty prior to coronavirus. A UN study released in September showed that an additional 150 million children were already pushed into poverty as a result of the pandemic. This number will likely continue to grow from COVID-19’s impact on ...
We estimate the nonlinear impacts of temperature extremes on poverty in China using county-level panel data from 2000 to 2020. Given China's large population and progress in poverty alleviation, this is a critical issue that considers the risk of weather disasters exacerbating poverty. Moreover, ...