In contrast with the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil's poverty rate is estimated to have decreased …. This apparent paradox can be mostly explained by the way in which poverty and FI are measured: Measurements of poverty are … the short term. In 2021, both poverty and FI may have increased. Simulations suggest that poverty increased in 2021 to 18 …

other regions in the world to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The region also faces challenges from other emerging … diseases, re-emerging diseases, and climate change. Since 2020, the Central Asian regional economies, as the rest of the world … security and achieving gains in development. The World Bank has been actively engaged in Central Asia for over two decades and …

Although diet structure and activity throughout the developing world have shifted drastically over the past several …

Assessment and the World Bank High-Frequency Phone Surveys. Analysis of welfare trends and drivers of poverty changes draws from …This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar's poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback … to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to extract lessons from the Myanmar 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 …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national …

. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development: the eradication of poverty from the world. The report … defines poverty in broad terms, to include literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that … rapid and politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a strategy with two equally important …

This report focuses on the dimensions of poverty, and how to create a better world, free of poverty. The analysis … explores the nature, and evolution of poverty, and its causes, to present a framework for action. The opportunity for expanding … growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, can be harnessed through economic integration, and technological change, dependent …