China claimed last year it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty. President Xi Jinping heralded it as a “major victory” that the Chinese Communist Party had ...

Of those living in poverty, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than US $1.25 a day. They lack access to proper nutrition, clean drinking water, and adequate health ...

This excellent report takes seriously the conceptual and empirical issues in measuring and monitoring the World Bank’s new twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. I ...

The World Bank Group aims to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030, defined as decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $2.15 per day (2017 PPP prices) to no more than 3 percent of ...