Poverty Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Oct 15, 2024 · Overview. Global poverty reduction has slowed to a near standstill, with 2020-2030 set to be a lost decade. 8.5 percent of the global population – almost 700 million people – live today on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line relevant for low-income countries. Three-quarters of all people in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan ...
A Global Database of Inflation - World Bank Group
The World Bank’s Prospects Group has constructed a global database of inflation. The database covers up to 209 countries over the period 1970-2023, and includes six measures of inflation in three frequencies (annual, quarterly, and monthly): The database also provides aggregate inflation for global, advanced-economy, and emerging market and ...
Food Security | Rising Food Insecurity - World Bank Group
Oct 21, 2024 · In real terms, food price inflation exceeded overall inflation in 58.9% of the 168 countries where data is available. Download the latest brief on rising food insecurity and World Bank responses. Since the last update on September 26, 2024, the agricultural and cereal price indices closed 1 and 2 percent lower, respectively; the export price ...
Careers - World Bank Group
Careers. The World Bank’s digital platform for live-streaming. With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.
KEY FINDINGS Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in the …
Nov 24, 2022 · In the past three decades, the Philippines has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty. Driven by high growth rates and structural transformation, the poverty rate fell by two-thirds, from 49.2 percent in 1985 to 16.7 percent in 2018. By 2018, the middle class had expanded to nearly 12 million people and the economically secure population had risen to …
PHILIPPINES: Reducing Inequality Key to Becoming a Middle-Class …
With an income Gini coefficient of 42.3 percent in 2018, the Philippines had one of the highest rates of income inequality in East Asia. “The Philippines aims to become a middle-class society free of poverty by 2040, but we know from global experience that no country has managed to make this transition while maintaining high levels of ...
Climate Explainer: Food Security and Climate Change - World Bank …
Oct 17, 2022 · The World Bank Group’s Climate Change Action Plan (2021-2025) is stepping up support for climate-smart agriculture across the agriculture and food value chains and via policy and technological interventions to enhance productivity, improve resilience, and reduce GHG emissions. The Bank also helps countries tackle food loss and waste and ...
Gender-Based Violence (Violence Against Women and Girls)
Sep 25, 2019 · Gender-based violence (GBV) or violence against women and girls (VAWG), is a global pandemic that affects 1 in 3 women in their lifetime. The numbers are staggering: 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. Globally, 7% of women have been sexually assaulted ...
What is Food Security? There are Four Dimensions - World Bank …
Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.. The four main dimensions of food security: Physical availability of food: Food availability addresses …
Women’s & Girls’ Empowerment - World Bank Group
Using an Empowerment Approach to Design Development Projects. The Operational Approach to Women's and Girls’ Empowerment (WGE) offers a three step process to design a project that empowers women or girls to reach a particular objective:. First - define a specific achievement the project hopes to empower women and/or girls to realize, such as reducing a specific gender gap or improving a ...