The World Bank says 10 percent of the world's population lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2015, down from 11.2 percent in 2013. That means 735.9 million people lived below the poverty threshold in 2015, down from 804.2 million. Poverty dropped everywhere but the Middle East a...
The World Bank chief noted at the press conference that world population growth is estimated at 1.1 percent per year. "So if you get much slower in terms of world growth, that means people are going backward," Malpass said in response to a question from Xinhua. Citing a recent World Bank...
“In Egypt more than half of the population is eligible for subsidized bread,” said Beata Javorcik, chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. “Now, that’s going to be much more expensive for government coffers, and it’s happening where countries are already m...
The World Bank and global cooperation in health: The case of Bangladesh. The Lancet 351 - Buse, Gwin - 1998 () Citation Context ...tment Programme (SIP) in Mozambique (Pavignani & Durão, 1997) and similarly affected, to some extent, the manner in which the Health and Population ...
On January 1, 2022, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement entered into force, creating the world’s largest free trade zone in terms of population size and trade volume. The RCEP and the BRI overlap and complement each other in terms of participating countries and ...
Vietnam has a large, highly-educated population, with literacy rates of over 90%. It is the 16th largest country in the world by population size. 02 A connected population The country is committed to expanding fixed line and fibre optic broadband access, mobile internet penetration is high and...
The United States of America is a vast country, straddles six time zones and is one of the largest consumer markets on earth. With a GDP of USD25.44 trillion and a population of 333 million, its household spending is the highest in the world. ...
After the expansion, the BRICS countries account for about 30 percent of the global GDP, nearly half of the global population and one-fifth of global trade. China has been committed to deepening mutually beneficial cooperation with its BRICS partners. In the first quarter of this year, China'...
An educated population can better comprehend budget constraints, the value of forfeiting short-term aspirations for long-term national strategic objectives, and the broad set of contesting factors that ought to be contemplated when drawing development policies, all of which feeds into high levels of ...
Preliminary evidence suggests that the pandemic has also caused within-country income inequality to rise somewhat in EMDEs because of particularly severe job and income losses among lower-income population groups, according to the report. "The world economy is simultaneously facing COVID-19, inflation...