The number of people living on less than $1.90 a day fell during this period by 68 million to 736 million. Despite the tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty, rates remain stubbornly high in ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...

There is substantial evidence that a very unequal distribution of income is not conducive to either economic growth or poverty reduction. Current experience of economic growth has shown that if ...

Below you will find our Country Learning Poverty Briefs, which highlights learning poverty and its accompanying indicators in more than hundred a countries. This version includes the latest available ...

some countries manage to attenuate the impact of that poverty by access to services made available to the population. At the top of the list of such countries in 2002, were Uruguay, Costa Rica, Chile ...

Because there are different aspects of poverty in different regions, the study calls for the development of strategies that tackle the issue to be tailored to specific countries and regions.

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, celebrated annually on October 17th, aims to promote understanding and dialogue between people living in poverty and the wider society.