China is now an upper-middle-income country. Although China eradicated extreme poverty in 2020, an estimated 17.0 percent of the population lived on less than $6.85 a day (in 2017 PPP terms), the ...

Some 80% of major South Asian cities are at risk of flooding that could cost the region $215 billion a year by 2030, a 2021 report published by the World Bank ... said Shaikh Rokon, head of ...