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The Multidimensional Poverty Measure was created by the Global Poverty Working Group (GPWG), an interdisciplinary technical working group established to improve the quality and frequency of poverty and inequality data, comprising members from the Poverty and Equity Global Practice and the Development Economics Vice Presidency Data Group (DECDG ...

2024年10月15日 · Global poverty reduction has slowed to a near standstill, with 2020-2030 set to be a lost decade. 8.5 percent of the global population – almost 700 million people – live today on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line relevant for low-income countries.

Download: Poverty Traps in Argentina Solid walls on quicksand . Argentina faces a paradox: it has good programs and allocates significant resources to fighting poverty, yet it has not fallen below a floor of 25 percent over the last 40 years. The report Poverty illustrates this situation by saying that Argentina builds solid walls on quicksand.

The quality of education is extremely poor with an estimated 97% of 10-year-olds in DRC being in learning poverty, meaning they cannot read and understand a simple text. Congolese women face significant barriers to economic opportunities and empowerment, including high rates of gender-based violence (GBV) and discrimination. Only 16.8% of women ...

As a result of the PPP update, the global extreme poverty rate for 2019 (the last year for which we have global poverty data) will decrease marginally, from 8.7% to 8.4%, reducing the count of people who live in extreme poverty by 20 million and bringing the total to 648 million. At the $3.65 line (used for lower-middle-income countries), the ...

2024年10月17日 · Poverty rates and total number of poor as measured by the national poverty line and for the international extreme poverty line ($2.15 in 2017 PPP terms), as well as the lower-middle-income ($3.65) and upper-middle-income ($6.85) poverty lines. Comparable poverty and inequality trends for apples-to-apples comparisons over time and across countries.

2024年10月8日 · Learning poverty stands at 90% and 37% of children under 5 years of age are stunted. Generating good jobs. The country’s growing workforce (with roughly 2 million persons reaching working age per year) puts pressure on the absorption capacity of the labor market, necessitates improving current jobs, while creating sufficient new jobs.

2024年10月21日 · The World Bank Group Malawi Country Partnership Framework (CPF) FY21-25 focuses on three areas: bolstering foundations for growth and accountability, promoting private sector-led jobs, and strengthening human capital development, with digital development and women’s empowerment as cross-cutting themes.

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the landscape of poverty in the aftermath of an extraordinary series of …