progress toward ending extreme poverty by 2030 and in promoting shared prosperity, and it outlines the measures necessary to … scale up impact over the horizon of the Sustainable Development Goals. The report unveils the new poverty line of …

the fight against poverty in the world. He believes that assuring growth is inclusive is both a moral imperative and a … toward these goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, we have the opportunity to create a world for …Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group discusses the opportunity to create a world free from the stain of …

and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of …Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank … alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations of aid by the International Development Association, the World …

This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy … wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity …

for international refugees in the world. The paper provides prima facie evidence that the program quickly caused … declined by four percentage points (or 15 percent) within six months of program rollout, and the poverty headcount at the …

The debate on the environment-poverty nexus is inconclusive, with past research unable to identify the causal dynamics …. This paper uses a unique global panel data set that links (survey and census derived) poverty data to measures of … degree environmental quality matters for poverty reduction. The paper draws three main conclusions. (1) The environment …

This note shows that based on headcount poverty rates, at the household level, households with elderly members are …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, discusses the goals of the World Bank Group, aligned to support the poor and … the vulnerable, and to preserve our planet for future generations. He talks about the report "Poverty in a Rising Africa … improving people's lives, and contributed in many countries, such as Ghana, to major reductions in poverty. He talks about the …