Bangladesh has seen impressive economic growth in recent years, emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia.

Four priorities for NGOs turning to local government partnerships in the face of funding cuts to help build lasting, ...

Understanding Poverty Topics Inequality and Shared Prosperity More broad-based economic growth is essential to accelerate progress in boosting shared prosperity.

The main indicator used to measure shared prosperity is the growth in the real per capita income of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution. This dashboard shows the differences in ...

Respect for human rights is closely intertwined with addressing poverty and extreme inequality. Human Rights Watch research exposes how people experiencing poverty are often more vulnerable to ...

If so, by how much? How economic inequality affects poverty? Does the responsiveness of poverty to growth and inequality depend on initial poverty and inequality? How do pro-poor policies influence ...

Opinion Commentary Turbulent research landscape imperils US brain gain − and ultimately American prosperity Turbulent research landscape imperils US brain gain − and ultimately American prosperity ...

Taxpayer subsidies for renewable energy, like wind and solar power, only drive up prices and make the electric grid less reliable. The One Big Beautiful Bill aims to phase them out.

New Yorkers are sending a clear message: The city isn’t delivering enough. The Citizens Budget Commission’s recent survey, Straight From New Yorkers, paints a stark picture with residents ...

This is more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over at the World Bank’s highest poverty line of $8.30 a day. The wealth of just 3,000 billionaires has surged $6.5 trillion in real terms ...

To estimate the impact of poverty on conflict and to determine whether the relationship between them is causal, it is necessary to identify a source of exogenous variation in poverty. We do this by ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable." ...