A new World Bank report — Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune — sheds new light on the threats to poverty reduction and provides ... than half a percentage point per year between ...

Education has been and can continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction ... India point to a substantial unmet demand for highly skilled labor. Meeting this demand may be the key to both ...

On July 13-17 Business Fights Poverty hosted a free online conference ... this reflects and has exacerbated deeper issues around gender inequality. At the same time, the murders of George Floyd ...

What is the importance of trade in the global economy? AG: International trade is essential to support growth, development and poverty reduction. Despite recent ... Investment Partnership (TTIP). The ...

Amory Gethin, an economist at the World Bank’s development research group, believes that education policy should continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction.

There is no strict consensus on a standard definition of poverty that applies to all countries. Some define poverty through the inequality ... Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP).

Imraan Valodia asked him to unpack some of the main points of his ... You have highlighted the importance of understanding historical trends in income inequality, and how political factors shape ...

During negative economic growth, the welfare of the poor should be the main focus ... increase in poverty. "Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction.

Republican mayors rejected progressive criminal justice reforms embraced by their Democratic counterparts, but factors such as inequality ... that eliminating poverty is key to reducing crime ...

Education, he wrote, accounts for fully half of total economic growth and two-thirds of real income gains among the world’s poorest 20 percent since 1980, based on his findings. The statistics ...