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Highlights: The report covers topics such as economic growth, fiscal balances, debt service obligations, conflict and violence, and policy responses to address these issues. Economic...

As Madagascar undergoes a demographic transition and expects significant growth in the share of its working-age population by 2050, focusing investments to ensure the health, education, and empowerment of adolescent girls...

Malaysia's economic growth has moderated to 2.9% in Q2 2023, down from 5.6% in Q1 2023, amidst subdued external demand and a global technology downcycle. The...

The September 2023 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have...

The Geospatial Poverty Portal (GSAP) offers the latest data on subnational poverty, inequality, and multidimensional poverty and small area estimation guidelines. One way in which the GSAP...

Honduras, already among the poorest countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, experienced weak poverty reduction in 2014–19 compared to other countries in the region. The COVID-19...

Vietnam is a country on the move and in transition. Indicators are pointing in the right direction, with many positive economic and social developments. The amount of progress that Vietnam has achieved in less...

Highlights: The share of Uganda’s population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly influenced by shocks that have tested the...

Key findings include the following points, in particular regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on poverty and inequality: The Philippines has made significant progress in reducing poverty, but income...