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Thinking about Development Differently: Complexity and Network-Based Approaches for Policy

5 May, 2025 | This event explores how complexity science and network-based methods can bring fresh insights to development research and policy.
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Poverty and Equity Briefs

Spring 2025 | The Poverty and Equity Briefs highlight poverty, shared prosperity and inequality trends for over 100 developing countries.
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Eleventh Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

9-11 July, 2025 | This conference provides an international forum for researchers whose work focuses on economic inequality and related fields.

Poverty At-A-Glance

After a period of significant progress, a series of recent overlapping crises and shocks have caused a slowdown in global poverty reduction.

Today, one in ten people around the world still live in extreme poverty – deprived not only of an adequate income and livelihood, but also opportunity, dignity and hope.

Extreme poverty has become increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and places impacted by conflict and fragility.

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Poverty and Inequality Platform

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Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis

Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis

This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet, and explores potential pathways out of today's polycrisis.

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Focus Areas

Measuring Poverty

In order to monitor progress, it is important to measure poverty regularly.
Inequality and Shared Prosperity

Promoting shared prosperity is one of the goals of the World Bank Group.

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Extreme poverty, 2015-2022

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Extreme poverty, 2015-2022

After a period of significant progress, a series of overlapping crises and shocks have caused a slowdown today in global poverty reduction. Extreme poverty has become increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and places impacted by conflict and fragility.