Some 2.7 billion people live in poverty on less than two dollars a day, whilst 1.1 billion live in extreme poverty on less than one dollar a day. The United Nat

The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty looks at the complex relationships between economic growth, poverty reduction and trade, and examines the challenges that po

The book brings together a series of contributions with a common goal of reflecting the links between economic development and rural development. The scenario i

This edition of the biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report brings sobering news. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its associated economic crisis,

Three billion people live in rural areas in developing countries. Conditions for them are worse than for their urban counterparts when measured by almost any de