End extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity
More than 1 billion people still live in destitution. At the same time, inequality is rising in many developing nations. The World Bank wants to galvanize international and national support around two goals: to virtually end extreme poverty in a generation and to push for greater equity. A new Shared Prosperity Indicator will be used to measure income growth of the bottom 40 percent in each country.
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