This paper describes the database The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Harmonised level estimates and their changes over time. The global MPI is an international poverty measure based on ten deprivation indicators in three dimensions: health, education, and living standards. The database ...
The growth of China's exports is both driven by, and offers a solution to, major global challenges, including high inflation, poverty and global warming. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty rates have risen in some developing countries. According to the 2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty I...
In terms of the interaction of flood risk and poverty, Rentschler and colleagues estimate that over 780 million people living on under $5.50 per day face high flood risk. In other words, the data suggest that four out of every ten people exposed to flood risk globally live on low incomes....
Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that global interest rates are currently significantly higher than in the past, which has led to fiscal tightening and posed great challenges to global economic growth and the sustainability o...
Subnational poverty rates For 1755 of the 2183 subnational units, the World Bank’s Global Subnational Poverty Atlas offers poverty estimates, derived from the latest available Living Standards Measurement Survey for the respective country3. This harmonized inventory of household surveys offers ground-up...
According to "Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism" over the past fifty years poverty has dramatically been reduced however, "approximately one-fifth of the world's population, over one billion people, earns less than one dollar a day." When Galbraith wrote this essay in the 1950s,...
"We need to prevent the world from falling into a prolonged period of anemic growth that entrenches poverty and inequality... But a smart mix of reforms could jumpstart medium-term growth," IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva pointed out in a late-July article published in the IMF blog...
[1] After much effort, I concluded that nuclear energy was one of those options – perhaps the most important one – since clean energy is essential for fighting both climate change and global poverty. I realized that while other forms of clean energy were important, they would not be ...
He called for greater determination and intensity in advancing poverty alleviation, and highlighted the need to offset the impact of the epidemic in order to clinch a complete victory over poverty – a cause of such tremendous importance to China and all of humanity. (15)3月6日,全国新增本土...
such as mosquitos.11Studies in China show that increasing temperatures positively affect the viability of disease transfer by decreasing the viral incubation time in vectors -- leading to increased infection rates.12The World Health Organization estimated that climate change has been responsible for 3% ...