Food Security | Rising Food Insecurity - World Bank Group
网页2024年9月30日 · The Global Report on Food Crises 2024 Mid-Year Update highlights alarming trends in acute food insecurity and malnutrition, following high levels in 2023. The number of people projected to be in Catastrophe (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 5) has surged, increasing from 705,000 in 2023 to 1.9 million …
A Global Database of Inflation - World Bank Group
网页The World Bank’s Prospects Group has constructed a global database of inflation. The database covers up to 209 countries over the period 1970-2023, and includes six measures of inflation in three frequencies (annual, quarterly, and monthly): Headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation. Food CPI inflation.
Poverty Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
网页2024年4月2日 · Overview. Around 700 million people live on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line. Extreme poverty remains concentrated in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, fragile and conflict-affected areas, and rural areas. After decades of progress, the pace of global poverty reduction began to slow by 2015, in tandem with subdued economic growth.
China Economic Update – December 2021 - World Bank Group
网页China’s economy is projected to slow in 2022. After a strong rebound in the first half of 2021, economic activity in China cooled rapidly in the second half of this year. We project real GDP growth to reach 8.0 percent this year, before moderating to 5.1 percent in 2022, says the latest China Economic Update.
China Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
网页China is now an upper-middle-income country. Although China has eradicated extreme poverty in 2020, an estimated 17.2 percent of the population lived on less than $6.85 a day (in 2017 PPP terms), the World Bank’s Upper-Middle-Income Country (UMIC) poverty line, in 2023. China’s strong growth has been based on investment and export-oriented ...
From Greenhouse Gases to Green Cities: Building a Low Carbon …
网页2021年11月10日 · The World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan recognizes that cities will be key for this transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy. The plan aims to direct 35 percent of financing to climate on average, with half of its climate finance supporting adaptation and resilience and all financial flows in line with the Paris Agreement by 2025.
Macroeconomics Overview - World Bank Group
网页2024年4月1日 · Macroeconomics is the branch of economics that deals with the overall functioning of the economy. Macroeconomic policies have a critical influence on the decisions of households and firms to spend, save, hire and invest. And the conditions they foster set the stage for economic growth and development. The World Bank Group’s …
Development Topics - World Bank Group
网页The World Bank Group helps developing countries tackle today’s complex, intertwined challenges, from adapting to climate change and addressing food security to ensuring access to education, clean air, water, and energy. Our vision is translated into action and measurable progress using the World Bank Group’s scorecard.
KEY FINDINGS Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in the …
网页2022年11月24日 · In the past three decades, the Philippines has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty. Driven by high growth rates and structural transformation, the poverty rate fell by two-thirds, from 49.2 percent in 1985 to 16.7 percent in 2018. By 2018, the middle class had expanded to nearly 12 million people and the economically secure …
Recognizing and tackling a global food crisis - World Bank Group
网页2023年1月5日 · This year, acute food insecurity is projected to reach a new peak, surpassing the food crisis experienced in 2007-2008. A combination of factors—including greater poverty and supply chain disruptions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, rising inflation, and high commodity prices—has increased food and …