(Reuters) -Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

New World Bank report says shifting from state-led, capital-intensive industries to those that hire more workers would sustain progress and create a more resilient economy DUSHANBE, September 22, 2025 ...

Newly-installed World Bank President David Malpass spent his first day at the global lender Tuesday hammering home the message that the most urgent issue facing the bank is addressing global poverty.

This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of poverty due to disasters, 12.7 million thereof facing extreme poverty. Disaster ...

The World Bank has warned that poverty in Pakistan is rising again after years of steady decline. In a new report, the bank said that national poverty fell from 64.3% in 2001 to 21.9% in 2018. However ...

Extreme poverty remains a major challenge across parts of Africa, with new data showing that millions continue to live on less than three dollars a day. Recent figures from Visual Capitalist, citing ...

Nigeria's economy is stabilising after a raft of reforms by President Bola Tinubu rocked the west African giant, the World Bank said Wednesday, but millions of citizens have fallen into poverty.