Therefore, if these projections are accurate, the poverty rate was already 5.3 percentage points lower 2 months ago than at the beginning of Javier Milei’s presidency. I’m not a big believer in drawing sweeping conclusions based on less than a year’s worth of data, but I will say ...
From 1990 to 2021, the age-standardized DALY rates showed an average annual percentage change of − 0.16% (95% confidence interval: − 0.22, − 0.11%). Higher age-standardized DALY rates were dominated in sub-Saharan Africa (126.35 per 100,000 population, 95% UI: 91.04, 161.73...
China is about to eliminate absolute poverty in 2020 in favor of relativepoverty. The Gini coefficient reflects a distorted picture of relative poverty in China, which is prominent and overlaps with absolute poverty. This p...
Poverty reduction is an eternal theme in the modernization drive of countries. After 2020, China’s poverty reduction endeavors will face new challenges and shift towards: (i) elevating poverty standards, (ii) placing equal emphas...
The bank expects the world economy to expand 2.7% in 2025 and again in 2026. It’s a remarkably consistent performance – matching 2023 and 2024 – but also a lackluster one. Growth is running 0.4 percentage points below the 2010-2019 average. The slump reflec...
Inclusive loans to micro and small businesses increased at an annual rate of 24%, rising from 8.2 trillion yuan to 23.8 trillion yuan, with the average interest rate falling by 1.5 percentage points compared to five years ago. We saw that the RMB exchange rate floated with greater flexibility...
"Improvements in nutrition, years of schooling, sanitation and cooking fuel played a significant role in bringing down poverty," said Suman Bery, vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog, the government think-tank that released the report. The percentage of the population living in ...
2b), while in Eastern China, the Indian subcontinent, and parts of West Africa, large parts of the population face hazardous PM2.5 concentrations (Fig. 2c). Fig. 2: Exposure to unsafe average annual PM2.5 concentrations as a share of the population. a Percentage of the population exposed ...
Poverty is almost endemic in the suburban parts of the country, where homeownership poses a serious challenge, and in some urban parts. In 1999, the poverty rate in Australia was estimated to be around 13.1% — a percentage that might appear low in other poverty-stricken countries, but that...
Perceptions on if pupil poverty has increased in England and Wales in 2019 U.S. white, non-Hispanic married-couple families below the poverty level1990-2023 Percentage of U.S. adults with a sufficient amount of money for food U.S. Black families living below the poverty level 1990-2023 U...