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Abstract This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household...

Insight on Poverty and Children based on World Bank data. https://ourworldindata.org/children-and-poverty-results-from-new-data How many of the world’s children live in extreme poverty? A recent study by the World Bank tries to answer this question. This is a new and insightful exercise, since World...

A briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children in developing countries are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty. Highlights Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children – a briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children...

This study, conducted by both UNICEF and the World Bank Group, found that there are almost 385 million children globally living in extreme poverty conditions. It also noted that children are disproportionately affected - in fact, children made up one third of the sample population examined in this...

This paper reprises the changes in global poverty and discusses the case for continued development assistance to middle‐income countries. It is interesting to also note whether this trend that was captured in the beginning of the previous decade is still following as predicted.