The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing … precrisis progress in poverty reduction will slow, particularly in low-income countries in Africa. No household in developing … countries is immune. Gaps will persist to 2020. In 2015, 20 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa will be in extreme poverty …

Development Goals (MDGs) can be accelerated. The MDGs set clear targets for reducing poverty and other human deprivations and for …

development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the … developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis. The poor countries are … survival. At high- level meetings held in 2008 to mark the MDG halfway point, world leaders expressed grave concern that the …