Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in over twenty years. With COVID-19 predicted to push up to 100 million additional people into...
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2020/10/07
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2020/11/12
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Overview
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million people
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Castaneda Aguilar,Raul Andres; Cojocaru,Alexandru; Howton,Elizabeth Louise Amorim; Lakner,Christoph; Nguyen,Minh Cong; Schoch,Marta; Yang,Judy; Yonzan,Nishant.
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 : Reversals of Fortune (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (English). Poverty and Shared Prosperity Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/771631602138276369