
Marta Schoch
@marta_schoch
Working on poverty and inequality @WorldBank. PhD, @SussexUni. Interested in Political Economy, Inequality, Migration and Development.
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Rapid Response Phone #Surveys (RRPS) make it easier to gather near real-time #data from households and businesses even in remote locations. Learn how the World Bank is using RRPS and other rapid monitoring tools to help communities in need during #COVID19: wrld.bg/cYB150DsNjN


Update of World Bank’s global #poverty numbers: Small revisions to published estimates. 2019 numbers for some regions. Blog: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/march… Details: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/654… Data: iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/home… public.flourish.studio/visualisation/… World Bank Data World Bank Poverty

By investing in data, Nigeria can build trust, accountability, and transparency, taking substantial strides forward along its pathway to poverty reduction. blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/afw-… via World Bank Africa


Politics matters - but good sense of what is going on as well. Not least in Nigeria where poverty is high but hard to ascertain trends. I like this attempt, finding poverty is sticky, inversely following of oil prices, so up since 2016. blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttal… @jonathanwlain

Want to learn more about #poverty & #inequality in a country or across countries, regions, or the entire world? Check out the new World Bank Poverty & Inequality Platform, a simple yet comprehensive tool to access our estimates. wrld.bg/BIBj50KZE0e

By 2030, nearly 600 million people could still be living on less than $2.15 a day. The World Bank’s latest #PSPR provides a look at the global poverty landscape after COVID and other crises and recommends policies to help countries correct course. wrld.bg/axRf50L23M5


The World Bank’s latest Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report (#PSPR) provides the first comprehensive look at global poverty in the aftermath of an extraordinary series of shocks to the global economy. worldbank.org/poverty-and-sh… 1/11



Today the World Bank published its latest Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report. The global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is likely to be missed: by then, about 600 million people will remain in abject poverty. A major course correction is needed. worldbank.org/en/publication…



There is a clear crisis in development — poverty is going up & median incomes are going down. Read my foreword from the World Bank’s new 2022 Poverty & Shared Prosperity Report (PSPR) here: wrld.bg/rfOR50L2kiQ

What happened to global inequality in 2020? In a just-released paper (documents.worldbank.org/en/publication…) with Daniel G. Mahler, Christoph Lakner, and I look at what happened to global inequality and poverty due to the COVID pandemic in 2020. Three things to note:

Engaging conversation today during the World Bank’s #Africa Inspirational Breakfast Series, where we presented the World Bank Poverty Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report. Ending #poverty will require increased efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 60% of the global extreme poor live.
