"Debt in low-and middle-income economies has climbed to levels without precedent in modern times, writes the World Bank's Marcello Estevão."

"The World Bank has warned in a new report that Myanmar faces severe economic losses and a doubling of poverty as a result of the combined impact of the coup and COVID-19, with the military regime unable to govern effectively."

"The myth of global poverty eradication has been used to justify levels of wealth concentration that defy meritocratic rationalization."