The World Bank said it is committing $1 billion to help the Democratic Republic of Congo prepare for the development of the ...

The World Bank said on Thursday it would resume funding to Uganda, nearly two years after the global lender suspended new ...

India has made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty. World Bank data shows nearly 270 million people moved out of ...

The World Bank has cut Kenya's growth forecast for this year by half a point from its initial prediction to 4.5%, it said on ...

"While the change led to a global increase in the count of extreme poverty by 125 million, India emerged as a statistical ...

The World Bank’s latest global poverty update reveals a dramatic decline in extreme poverty across India between 2011-12 and ...

India has significantly reduced poverty. Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to ...

About 75.24 million people were living in extreme poverty in India during 2022-23, a massive drop from 344.47 million in 2011 ...