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 ...

(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 ...

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.

“Joining the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty reflects GAIN’s commitment to collective action. In the current global context, strong alliances and partnerships for food and nutrition ...

Poverty in Gaza can carry over to several generations due to child malnutrition and a mental health crisis that have developed since the outbreak of war in 2023, the World Bank's chief economist for ...

Pakistan’s poverty rate has risen to 28.8% in 2024-25 from 21.9% in 2018-19, driven by inflation, IMF programmes, floods and slow growth, reversing years of decline.

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...