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As shown in Figure 1, in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the historic progress in poverty reduction in all regions, except Latin America and the Caribbean where governments used fiscal stimulus to alleviate economic hardship for low-income households. Read More.
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Education is a powerful driver of development, and one of the strongest tools for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability.
Around 700 million people today live in extreme poverty. After several decades of continuous global poverty reduction, progress was lost between 2020-2022.
Climate change is dramatically outpacing our efforts to stop it. Without urgent action, it could push an additional 100 million people into poverty by 2030.
Digitalization is the transformational opportunity of our time. But about one-third of the global population, or 2.6 billion people, remained offline in 2023.
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