With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable ...

However, slow economic progress is hindering shared prosperity in some regions, particularly in some Europe and Central Asia which experienced negative or low levels of shared prosperity. More ...

This book started with an objective to understand the impact of high inflation on poverty and food security in Southeast Asia. However, the global economy moved quickly into recession in 2008. Global ...

Brooks, Douglas Hasan, Rana Lee, Jong-Wha and Son, Hyun H. 2010. Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy Options. SSRN Electronic Journal, ...

Asia plays a significant role in the global poverty landscape, with countries like India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia housing large populations struggling to access essential services, education ...

Both China and Vietnam have made enormous progress in the fight against poverty, and the evidence suggests that rural economic growth has played a large role in this success. Using each country's own ...

Covid-19 and the rise in cost of living have pushed close to 70 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year, the Asian Development Bank said, eroding efforts to ...

The most striking finding is a steady deceleration in the growth of the middle class. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, an ...

Eradicating rural poverty has been a key initiative of Xi Jinping's eight-year tenure Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country has achieved the "miracle" of eradicating extreme poverty.