below expectations. The World Bank ex post evaluation of the results of its engagement in FCS found that 80 percent of FCS …

, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent …Fragility and conflict pose a critical threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015 …. But in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), poverty is stagnating or getting worse. The number of people …

There is some evidence that IMF and World Bank adjustment lending smooths consumption for the poor, reducing the rise … in poverty for any given contraction of the economy but also reducing the fall in poverty for any given expansion …. Adjustment lending plays a similar role as inequality, reducing poverty's sensitivity to the economy's aggregate growth rate …

1. Introduction -- 2. Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the ongoing poverty -- 3. The international aid architecture … for a new international aid architecture. Turkey has become a world leader in humanitarian assistance and shared an …

Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and … a systematical analysis of today's donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty … reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and Swedish official development agencies are …