. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to …: Favorable growth has helped reduce poverty, but more even and accelerated progress requires strengthening of infrastructure and …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond … and formidable challenges. The first MDG, reducing extreme poverty by half, is likely to be met at the global level … action is needed to help the world get back on track to achieve the MDGs; and urgent action is also needed to combat climate …

, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing … precrisis progress in poverty reduction will slow, particularly in low-income countries in Africa. No household in developing … countries is immune. Gaps will persist to 2020. In 2015, 20 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa will be in extreme poverty …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

crucial year to build momentum. The MDGs set clear targets for eradicating poverty and related human deprivations, and for …

The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium … targets for eradicating poverty and other sources of human deprivation. Following other major international meetings came …

What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? How many people will the crisis prevent from escaping poverty … lower completion rates in later years. And household incomes that fall far below the poverty line will delay escapes from … poverty. This report uses indirect evidence to assess the impact of the crisis on several indicators, including the number of …

Development Goals (MDGs) can be accelerated. The MDGs set clear targets for reducing poverty and other human deprivations and for …