În ultimul deceniu, România a urmărit un plan ambițios de modernizare a administrației sale publice, managementul resurselor umane (MRU) reprezentând o pârghie centrală pentru profesionalizare și guvernanță...
Type: ReportReport#: 214639Date: December 31, 2026Author:
World Bank
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to combine strong economic growth with persistently high poverty. Real GDP growth reached 5.7 percent in 2025 and is projected to remain above 5 percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 200641Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
A decade of strong growth has reduced poverty in Cabo Verde. The poverty rate, measured at the $8.30-a-day poverty line (2021 PPP),
declined from 65.0 percent in 2015 to a projected 54.2 percent in 2026....
Type: BriefReport#: 200645Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
After making significant strides in reducing poverty for over two decades, Ethiopia faced a series of external and internal shocks that affected household welfare. The COVID-19 pandemic, the conflict in...
Type: BriefReport#: 200651Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Over the past decade, Croatia has made notable progress in reducing poverty. The share of the population living on under US$8.30 a day (2021 PPP) fell from 7.5 percent to less than 2 percent, driven primarily...
Type: BriefReport#: 200664Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
In 2015/16, the most recent period with available data, Saint Lucia’s national poverty rate stood at 25 percent. A decade earlier, it had been
closer to 30 percent. While methodological changes limit direct...
Type: BriefReport#: 200678Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Mauritius has successfully eradicated extreme poverty, yet pockets of vulnerability remain. Based on the 2023 Household Budget Survey,
relative poverty, defined as living on less than half the median household...
Type: BriefReport#: 200694Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
This report documents the scale, depth, and geographic distribution of the impacts of Sudan’s conflict and examines how these effects are experienced by different population groups across the country....
Type: ReportReport#: 215706Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Poverty reduction has been elusive in Burundi. Following the socio-political crisis of 2015, real per capita GDP contracted by an annualized rate of 1.9 percent between 2015 and 2020. The poverty rate...
Type: BriefReport#: 200623Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
The Central African Republic’s poverty story is one of widespread deprivation in a resource-rich country where conflict, weak institutions, and subdued growth have prevented natural wealth from improving...
Type: BriefReport#: 200636Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Cameroon’s central poverty challenge is not the absence of economic growth, but that growth has not translated into broad-based
improvements in living standards. Despite sustained growth over the past...
Type: BriefReport#: 200640Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Despite a robust recovery from COVID-19 and hurricanes Eta and Iota, with real GDP growth averaging 5.5 percent between 2021 and 2025, and strong remittance inflows, which reached 30.1 percent of GDP in...
Type: BriefReport#: 200663Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Indonesia continued to reduce poverty, fueled by robust economic growth. The national poverty rate was 8.1 percent in March 2026, down by 0.4 percentage points from the previous year. Welfare gains have...
Type: BriefReport#: 200666Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
While the spike in poverty in Jamaica caused by the COVID-19 crisis has been more than reversed, poverty reduction has subsequently slowed as natural disasters, including Hurricanes Beryl and Melissa,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200669Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Kenya’s economic growth has become less effective at reducing poverty. While real GDP per capita increased by 43 percent between 2005 and 2022, poverty declined by only seven percentage points, from 46.8...
Type: BriefReport#: 200672Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Lebanon's most recent source of household-level welfare data remains the 2022-2023 Lebanon Household Survey (LHS), which covered only five of Lebanon's eight governorates. Even before the September 2024...
Type: BriefReport#: 200676Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
This technical note develops a “simple” and scalable top-down macro–micro framework for global poverty projections that moves beyond distribution-neutral growth. The approach allocates growth across welfare...
Type: ReportReport#: 215718Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank ;
Kimura, Yuki ;
Lakner, Christoph ;
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon ;
Yonzan, Nishant
The latest reported poverty figures for Fiji are based on the 2019-20 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES). A new HIES was completed in mid-2026, with a new poverty rate expected by the end of...
Type: BriefReport#: 200652Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
In 2026, 34.9 percent of Mali’s population, equivalent to 9.1 million people, is projected to live below the international poverty line of US$3.00 per
person per day (2021 PPP). Poverty has remained broadly...
Type: BriefReport#: 200688Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
Official poverty fell from 31.6 percent in the first half of 2025 to 28.2 percent in the second half, the lowest rate since 2018, while extreme poverty stood at 6.3 percent. The decline was driven by disinflation...
Type: BriefReport#: 200621Date: October 9, 2026Author:
World Bank
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