This briefing provides key indicators for Cuba which help in monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. The arrows indicate longer term progress on outcomes from a base year,...
Type: BriefReport#: 181211Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Barbados on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 184655Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This brief showcases the gender landscape in Cyprus on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains, minimizes...
Type: BriefReport#: 184664Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Monitoring progress on poverty and inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is complicated due to the lack of recent data. The poverty rate measured by the international poverty line of $2.15...
Type: BriefReport#: 200641Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The national poverty headcount rate fell by 10.7 percentage points from 2015 to 2023, reaching 24.8 percent in 2023, down from 35.5 percent in 2015, according to INE’s official estimates relying on a SWIFT...
Type: BriefReport#: 200645Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2015, fewer than one in ten Saint Lucians were poor, meaning they lived on less than $6.85 a day (in 2017 PPP), according to the latest available data. Given the current economic outlook, with real...
Type: BriefReport#: 200678Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Mauritius has eradicated extreme poverty, although in 2017, 13.5 percent of Mauritians were below the upper middle-income class poverty line of $6.85 a day (2017 PPP). The World Bank’s new measure of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 200694Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Malaysia has made significant progress in economic growth and poverty reduction, but inequality remains a challenge. The country is on a path to achieve high-income status by 2028-2030. However, due to...
Type: BriefReport#: 200696Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
More than a decade of conflict compounded by external economic shocks has led to a dramatic deterioration in the welfare of Syrian households. Return movements have increased since the fall of the Assad...
Type: BriefReport#: 200741Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
South Africa has made significant strides in reducing poverty since 1994, but progress stalled after 2011. The lack of progress in reducing poverty and inequality since 2011 can be attributed to slow economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 200761Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Growth in the economies of the six Western Balkan countries (WB6) is expected to slow in 2025, due to the combined effects of a continued weak external environment coupled with heightened domestic pressures...
Type: ReportReport#: 204953Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Armenia on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 172995Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Republic of the Congo on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity...
Type: BriefReport#: 173291Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Democratic Republic of the Congo on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters...
Type: BriefReport#: 173290Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Aruba on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 184651Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This brief showcases the gender landscape in Czechia on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains, minimizes...
Type: BriefReport#: 184665Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Despite being rich in mineral and other natural resources, the Central African Republic (CAR) is among the ten poorest countries in the world. Reforms are required to address poverty in CAR, focusing on...
Type: BriefReport#: 200636Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Honduras remains one of the poorest and most unequal countries in the region. By 2023, about half of Hondurans (49.5 percent) lived on less than $6.85 per day (2017 PPP), the upper-middle income poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 200663Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
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