identifies the key challenges and opportunities for Burundi to accelerate progress in poverty reduction and shared prosperity in … living conditions; and (ii) the many competing 'binding' reasons for poverty in Burundi. Burundi is a densely populated, poor …

The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature- and current levels of … World Bank launched the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) in 2022. This core diagnostic tool aims to help … global climate change challenge. The first set of CCDRs covered only 10 percent of the world's tropical forests, but the …

were to be able to catch up with the rest of the world, and grow at 3.2 percent annually, the poverty rate would fall to 8 …We identify the conditions in terms of economic growth and public transfers required to "...reduce poverty in the … Russian Federation by one half by 2024" as stated in President Putin's Decree of May 17th, 2018. The current poverty rate is …

In recent years, it has become clear that many children around the world are not learning to read proficiently. As a … major contributor to human capital deficits, the learning crisis undermines sustainable growth and poverty reduction. To … spotlight this crisis, we are introducing the concept of Learning Poverty, drawing on new data developed in coordination with …

Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase … monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty measures seek to address this shortfall and have been adopted as an official …, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions." A particular …

pushed up to an additional people into poverty. Niger is further beset by vast infrastructure gaps, intensifying terrorism … attacks domestically, persisting conflict in the Sahel region, and intensifying environmental pressures. Robust poverty … enhanced security. This poverty assessment aims to strengthen the analytical foundation for poverty-reduction policies and …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank's corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting … poverty in all its forms, but their key difference from the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is the integration of … delivery. With this understanding as its guiding compass, the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic …

to improve the quality and reproducibility of development research around the world …

To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day … better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently, we need a food system that is more resilient and that shifts from …