Ajay Banga ’s approach to solving economic instability in the Global South is a unique one: using not just the financial ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

New World Bank report says shifting from state-led, capital-intensive industries to those that hire more workers would sustain progress and create a more resilient economy DUSHANBE, September 22, 2025 ...

(Reuters) -Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

June 27 (Reuters) - The goal of ending extreme poverty around the globe remains elusive partly due to compounding challenges faced by economies in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) ...

Newly-installed World Bank President David Malpass spent his first day at the global lender Tuesday hammering home the message that the most urgent issue facing the bank is addressing global poverty.

The World Bank has revised its global poverty assessment criteria, resulting in a significant increase in Pakistan's reported poverty rate-from 39.8% to 44.7%.Under the updated framework, individuals ...

Poverty in Gaza can carry over to several generations due to child malnutrition and a mental health crisis that have developed since the outbreak of war in 2023, the World Bank's chief economist for ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...