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 ...

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.

This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of poverty due to disasters, 12.7 million thereof facing extreme poverty. Disaster ...

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Sunday accused the central government of misrepresenting the World Bank's Poverty and Equity Brief for India, stating that poverty and inequality remain "deeply troubling" ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The World Bank urged Nigeria to end import bans in order to lower food prices as it estimated that around 50% more Nigerians were ...

The World Bank has warned that poverty in Pakistan is rising again after years of steady decline. In a new report, the bank said that national poverty fell from 64.3% in 2001 to 21.9% in 2018. However ...

Nigeria's economy is stabilising after a raft of reforms by President Bola Tinubu rocked the west African giant, the World Bank said Wednesday, but millions of citizens have fallen into poverty.