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At EducationWorldForum, I joined World Bank, DFID to share our support in providing countries w/ better info & tools, including funding the new Global Education Policy Dashboard: wrld.bg/3t5E30nmYfI. We hope it will help identify system-level strategies to advance quality education.

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New PPPs were released earlier this week. How do they affect the World Bank’s global poverty estimates? We are taking a first look in a new paper and blog documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/191… blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/how-d…

For those who have been waiting: September 2020 global poverty update from the World Bank: New annual poverty estimates using the revised 2011 PPPs blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/septe… via World Bank Data World Bank

We estimate that an additional 88 million people will live in extreme poverty in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 and that this number could rise to 115 million under the COVID-19-downside scenario blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updat… via @worldbank World Bank Data

Update of World Bank's global #poverty numbers: - New global #poverty estimates for 2017, most regions to 2018. - Revised 2011 PPPs: Poverty lines & regional/global estimates unchanged. - New #Nigeria data - Annual numbers now available blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/septe…

Full blog here: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updat… Also included in the new World Bank Poverty and Shared Prosperity report: openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/hand…

Also, we have a really pretty chart that moves! (thanks to Nishant Yonzan). public.flourish.studio/visualisation/…

New blog explaining revisions to 2011 purchasing power parities: Revised PPPs used in September global poverty update --> Small increase in global estimates (1/4 percentage point). Four drivers behind the revisions: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/why-h… Samuel Tetteh-Baah

In 2017, about a tenth of the world’s population were living in extreme poverty and about a quarter of the world’s population were living in societal poverty. blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updat… via @worldbank Christoph Lakner

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

The COVID-19 pandemic dealt the biggest setback to global poverty in decades and the economic recovery has been uneven. 2/11

#SDGAtlas 2023 is out! See some highlights from each goal below!

🗺️ Where in the world do the poor live? It depends on how poverty is defined. 📖 Learn more from this new #WorldDevelopmentIndicators Feature Story: wrld.bg/kCPe50PsXnZ

Fragility and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: two sides of the same coin Christoph Lakner blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/fragi… via @worldbank

What explains the sluggish progress in #poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa? Fragility, conflict, and violence are key barriers to progress. 📕 Read more in our latest blog: wrld.bg/l0NQ50PyRHw

Child marriage is more prevalent than you might think even today. Read this blog and #SDGAtlas story I wrote with Anna Fruttero.

22 countries remain entrenched in #poverty, and their GDP per capita stagnant for three decades. What are the factors keeping these countries from departing their low-income status? The answer in this blog post (and its four interactive visualizations): wrld.bg/4CmB50R8Bsi