by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 3, 2022 | News
Decades of progress in reducing extreme poverty slowed and then stopped, according to a World Bank report published in early October. The number of people experiencing extreme poverty – currently defined as subsisting on less than $2.15 US per day, which is up from a...
by Libby Carroll | Jul 6, 2022 | News
Learning poverty has increased by one-third in low- and middle-income countries, according to a report published June 23 by World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, U.K. government Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 16, 2020 | News
School closings due to the COVID-19 pandemic are projected to increase learning poverty by 72 million children in low- to middle-income nations, according to a World Bank report published Dec. 2. This would represent a 10% increase from 2019, resulting in learning...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 18, 2020 | News
By 2030, nearly two-thirds of the world’s poor will live in economies experiencing conflict, state fragility or both, according to a World Bank report published on Feb. 27. This is a dramatic shift from 2000, when most of the world’s poor lived in non-fragile...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 13, 2020 | News
Nearly half of the world (44%) is now considered obese or overweight, and 4 million deaths each year are attributed to obesity, according to a World Bank report published Feb. 6. Obesity’s prevalence has increased threefold since 1975, rising in all nations and with...
