Ethiopia has seen many changes since 2016, which until now, has been the reference year for data about the level and pattern of poverty in the country. The narrative around poverty was that years of high...
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...
The economy is expected to grow by 2.5 percent in 2024, driven by national election related spending and public infrastructure investments in the energy and transportation sectors. In the medium term...
Cameroon's economic growth shows signs of recovery after its slowdown in 2023. However, the growth rate remains below the target set out in the Nation’s development strategy (NDS30), implying limited poverty...
Monitoring progress on poverty and inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is complicated due to the lack of recent data. Between 2011 and 2022, the DRC experienced an average annual per-capita...
The economy is expected to grow by 2.5 percent in 2024, driven by national election related spending and public infrastructure investments in the energy and transportation sectors. In the medium term...
In early 2021, the government of China announced the elimination of poverty in rural areas, as measured using the official poverty standard, equivalent to $2.30/day (2017 PPP). However, using a higher...
The official multidimensional poverty rate in Mexico, which measures monetary poverty as well as deprivations in education, health, social security, housing quality, basic utilities, and food security...
Extreme poverty remains pervasive and deep in the Central African Republic. In 2021, when the last household survey suitable for poverty measurement was conducted, 65.7 percent of the population was living...
The Republic of Congo, home to 6.1 million people, is a lower-middle-income nation marked by a youthful demographic - 47.2 percent are under 18 and significant urbanization, with 58.1 percent of the population...
The poverty rate in Armenia has been steadily declining, although the pace has slowed in 2023. After peaking at 27 percent in 2020, the national absolute poverty rate fell to 24.8 percent in 2022, making...
The most recent household survey data in 2021-2022 reveals that 23 percent of Cameroonians are living below the international poverty line of $2.15 per person per day (2017 PPP), highlighting poverty reduction...
Following the economic contraction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chilean economy recovered and resumed poverty reduction, supported by a solid fiscal response. While public transfers were reduced...
This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of Middle East and North...
Between 2021 and 2023, poverty in Colombia has been on a downward trend, as the economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis have abated. High economic growth in 2022 was accompanied by a sustained labor market...
The economies of Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu expanded in FY23, largely driven by a resurgence in travel and reconstruction activities while benefitting from remittances. Although economies are projected...
The national poverty headcount stood at 44.8 percent based on the latest budget survey conducted in 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic. By utilizing the lower middle-income poverty line of $3.65 a day...
After a decade among the fastest-growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine slowed economic growth in Côte d’Ivoire in 2020...
Economic and political stability and investment in human capital have fueled decades of economic growth in Costa Rica. The successful expansion of forest coverage has supported a thriving eco-tourism sector...
Learning Poverty shows the extent of the learning crisis by focusing on the share of children who don’t learn to read with comprehension by age 10. Children who are Learning Poor are not able to reach...