Presentation of the World Bank Report: Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016

Date

13/10/2016

Hour

12:00

Place

CaixaForum
(Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8) Barcelona

Speaker

Mario Negre (World Bank)

The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity, as well as in-depth research into policies and interventions that can make a difference for the world’s poorest. The 2016 edition takes a close look at the role that inequality reduction plays in ending extreme poverty and improving the livelihoods of the poorest in every country.

In 2013, an estimated 767 million people were living under the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day. Even as the world's population has grown, the number of poor has gradually fallen. But in spite of this progress, with over 1 in 10 people considered poor, poverty remains unacceptably high. 

About Mario Negre

Mario Negre is a senior economist in the World Bank Development Economics Research Group, where he is seconded by the German Development Institute. He is a nonresidential research fellow at Maastricht School of Management. He has worked at the European Parliament, first as an adviser to the chairman of the Development Committee and then for all external relations committees. Since 2012, he has been a senior researcher at the German Development Institute. His fields of specialization are propoor growth, inclusiveness, inequality, and poverty measurement, as well as development cooperation policy, particularly in Europe. Mario holds a BSc in physics from the University of Barcelona, an MA in development policies from the University of Bremen, and a PhD in development economics from the Jawharlal Nehru University, India.

More information

Let’s Take on Inequality Seriously, Seriously. A blog post by Mario Negre