Currently, 859 million around the world live in multidimensional poverty and more than 300 million children live in extremely income-poor households. With only five years to go until the end of the…

Time for a new round up of news on all things #poverty! Much to report this month, see full list of items and links to resources below. Two reports from the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty Wh…

With major cuts to foreign assistance announced or anticipated in the US, the UK, and across the EU, and in the World Bank’s subsidized lending program, we must urgently work to get the most out of sh...

Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.

Who benefits from public spending? New World Bank data on pro-poor social spending across 133 countries shows wide variation in how much education, health, and transfers reach the poorest 20%.

We present some estimates for lives saved by US assistance worldwide, with illustrative estimates by recipient country. Our core estimates are for deaths prevented from HIV/AIDS, vaccine-preventable i...

Is evidence-based policymaking dead? In an age of populism, how can we ensure that facts and evidence still matter in policymaking and international development?

Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.

It is easy to forget how young the global poverty line still is. In this blog Ranil Dissanayake explores three sets of challenges in the measurement and use of the international poverty line, and cons...