This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Burundi on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 173001Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Bhutan on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 173020Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Cabo Verde on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 173294Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Costa Rica on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 173296Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2018, the last year with available household budget survey data, 19.9 percent of individuals in Belize lived below the World Bank’s upper middle-income line of $6.85/day (2017 PPP). Planned investments...
Type: BriefReport#: 200629Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty estimates in Jordan are based on the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HEIS). Following the regime change in neighboring Syria in December 2024, refugees living in Jordan have started to...
Type: BriefReport#: 200670Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2024, Madagascar's poverty rate stands at 80.0 percent based on a daily income threshold of $2.15 (in 2017 PPP), with a slight projected decrease to 79.5 percent in 2025. The outlook for poverty reduction...
Type: BriefReport#: 200683Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Using the national measure of poverty for the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), 7.2 percent of the population lived below the basic needs poverty line in 2019-2020, based on the latest Household...
Type: BriefReport#: 200686Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Myanmar made significant strides in reducing poverty from 48 percent in 2005 to 25 percent in 2017. However, economic conditions have continued to deteriorate, with real GDP projected to contract by 1...
Type: BriefReport#: 200689Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Peru has made significant progress in reducing poverty over the past two decades, but recent challenges have reversed many of these gains. While modest poverty reduction is projected through 2026, Peru...
Type: BriefReport#: 200721Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The national poverty rate in Yemen was last reported in 2014 and was estimated to be 48.6 percent of the population, marking an increase of 13.4 percentage points from the poverty rate reported in 2005....
Type: BriefReport#: 200760Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty in the Palestinian territories has increased steadily over the past decade, rising from 25.8 percent in 2011 to 29.2 percent in 2016/17,
and reaching 32.8 percent in 2023 (pre-conflict, national...
Type: BriefReport#: 204938Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continues its efforts to reignite growth and create more and better jobs, but progress remains constrained. The regional growth rate is expected to edge up slightly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 204958Date: October 1, 2025Author:
Maloney, William F. ;
Vuletin, Guillermo Javier ;
Garriga, Pablo ;
Morales Lema, Raul Alejandro
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Afghanistan on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 172989Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Brazil on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 173018Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Chile on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains,...
Type: BriefReport#: 173281Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2020, the national poverty headcount in Comoros was 44.8 percent, based on the latest budget survey conducted before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ongoing investments in the Galawa Hotel and El-Maarouf...
Type: BriefReport#: 200644Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Paraguay has made significant progress in reducing poverty over the past two decades, with the national poverty rate falling from 51.4 percent in 2003 to 20.1 percent in 2024. However, four main structural...
Type: BriefReport#: 200726Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Thailand faces substantial tail risks from climate change, including the risks of a severe flood or drought. From a risk mitigation perspective, adaptation responses should also account for the possibility...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 204871Date: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
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