Eliminating extreme poverty—defined as surviving on $2.15 per person per day, in 2017 U.S. dollars—is the United Nations' top priority among 17 sustainable development goals.

Germany has a poverty problem. Despite the country’s vast wealth, the German social security system is failing many people.

In an effort to acquire knowledge of the geographical distribution of poverty in Croatia, the World Bank collaborated with partners in the country to develop a detailed, geo-referenced database that ...

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and the World Bank have developed a set of poverty maps for Serbia, which show variability in welfare across the country by combining two sources - the ...