Child poverty is seven times higher in Israel and Turkey than in lowest-placed Denmark. Since 2007, child poverty has risen in over two-thirds of OECD countries with considerable increases seen in ...

The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience of development practitioners, policy makers, researchers, advocates, and citizens with the latest and most accurate estimates on ...

The "Kenya Poverty and Equity Assessment 2023" by the World Bank reports that Kenya has seen robust GDP growth, positively impacting living standards, but this progress is unevenly distributed across ...

Shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine mean the world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank said in a new report ...

The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade. The percentage of people in Lebanon living below the poverty line rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022.