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 ...
For years, poverty has been measured against the World Bank’s $2.15 per day benchmark. In one of history’s biggest achievements, a billion people worldwide climbed above this line in recent decades. Now it’s time to go further — not only by helping the 730 million people still in ...
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....
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...
Inflation was the most worrying global issue as of August 2024. Inflation rates soared worldwide through 2022 and 2023.
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...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy is growing steadily in the face of war, protectionist trade policies and high interest rates. It just isn’t growing fast enough to bring relief to the world’s poorest, the World Bank said Thursday in its latest a...
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 ...
financial institutions confront a variety of trends that have introduced greater uncertainty than before into the future direction of the business and regulatory environment.Economic conditionsin many countries continue to be weak, with historically low-interest rates. The UK referendum to leave theEuropea...