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1. • • The World Bank Group is committed to fighting poverty in all its dimensions. We use the latest data, evidence and analysis to help countries develop policies to improve people's lives, with a focus on the poorest and most vulnerable.
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2. www.worldbank.org › en › topicPoverty Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank

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   Oct 15, 2024 · The World Bank Group is committed to fighting poverty in all its dimensions. We use the latest data, evidence and analysis to help countries develop policies to improve people's lives, with a focus on the poorest and most vulnerable.

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3. www.worldbank.org › en › topicMeasuring Poverty Overview - World Bank Group

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   Oct 15, 2024 · The World Bank works to measure and analyze poverty and share knowledge and methods for measuring poverty more accurately and frequently. Through this work, we learn which poverty reduction strategies work, and which do not.

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5. blogs.worldbank.org › en › opendataSeptember 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank ...

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   Sep 20, 2024 · The World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) released updated global poverty estimates. Depending on the availability of survey data, global and regional poverty data are reported up to 2022.

6. www.worldbank.org › en › publicationPoverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024 - World Bank Group

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   The World Bank has set a clear mission: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first postpandemic assessment of global progress on this agenda.

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   Reducing poverty and inequality are central to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank Group’s twin goals for 2030: ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity in every country in a sustainable manner.

8. blogs.worldbank.org › en › opendataMarch 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank: first ...

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   Mar 26, 2024 · We estimate that COVID-19 increased extreme poverty in the world, as measured by the international poverty line of $2.15, from 8.9 percent in 2019 to 9.7 percent in 2020 (see Figure 1). This is the first increase in global poverty in decades.

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   What is the World Bank's poverty & inequality Platform (PIP)?

   • The World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) released updated global poverty estimates. Depending on the availability of survey data, global and regional poverty data are reported up to 2022. For the first time, PIP also includes survey-level, regional and global poverty nowcasts up to the current year.

   September 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank: revised

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   Why is understanding poverty important?

   • Understanding poverty is thus fundamental to understanding how societies can progress. Reducing poverty and inequality are central to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank Group’s twin goals for 2030: ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity in every country in a sustainable manner.

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   When did the World Bank calculate poverty?

   • The World Bank produced its first global poverty estimates for World Development Report 1990: Poverty (World Bank 1990) using household survey data for 22 countries (Ravallion, Datt, and van de Walle 1991).

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   Why is global poverty falling?

   • It is still the case that global poverty has been falling since the 1990s, and at a slower rate since 2014 (World Bank 2022). Extreme poverty has been falling in all regions, except the Middle East and North Africa due to conflict and fragility (World Bank 2020).

   March 2023 global poverty update from the World Bank: the challenge of

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   How does the World Bank fight poverty?

   • Fighting poverty in all of its dimensions lies at the core of the World Bank’s work. We work closely with governments to develop sound policies so that poor people can improve their livelihoods, and access social and infrastructure services and good jobs.

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   Why is poverty measured at the international poverty line?

   • Poverty measured at the international poverty line of $2.15 a day is used to track progress toward meeting the World Bank target of reducing the share of people living in extreme poverty to less than 3 percent by 2030.

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10. blogs.worldbank.org › en › opendataMarch 2023 global poverty update from the World Bank: the ...

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    Mar 29, 2023 · This March 2023 global poverty update from the World Bank revises the previously published global and regional estimates from 1981 to 2019. Regional poverty estimates are now reported up to 2021, depending on sufficient data coverage over the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.