Despite its importance to sustainable development, very little information exists on environmental health linkages … on Sub-Saharan Africa infrastructure operations to assess their environmental health dimensions and lessons learned which …: bridging environmental health gaps. Volume one contains environmental health background material as well as a checklist for …

countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …

consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from … distributional impact from an increase in high-income countries' labor force caused by migration from developing countries. Chapter 3 …

severe. Health and education indicators in Malawi are among the worst in the world. Strategies to reduce poverty in Malawi …The report requested by the government of Malawi updates the poverty assessment completed in March 1990. It will guide … incomes of the people in Malawi. A greater understanding of the magnitude and the profile of poverty will also make it easier …

This report, taking action for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa, commissioned in 1993 by the Bank's Africa … region differs from others in that it focuses on the Bank's operational program to reduce poverty. It analyses the … connections between its poverty assessments, country assistance strategies and the content of the lending program. It also …

An important finding from analyzing the survey data from the poverty assessment study on Nigeria is the concentration …-poor households to reside in communities in which the population is largely non-poor. As a result, the overall income inequality in … the country is due largely to income inequality between communities and much less to income inequality between households …

indicators, the lack of sustained per capita income growth resulted in continued poverty for an increasing number. And that the …About half of Kenya's rural population (approximately 9 million people) was the poverty line in 1992, a proportion … poverty line. In the early 1980s, Kenya's social indicators were distinctly more favorable than those of most countries in the …

This report compares poverty levels and trends in sub - Saharan Africa with the rest of the world. It then uses … national aggregate indicators to look at poverty trends and levels across African countries. This section makes use of … then highlights the many faces of poverty in Africa by drawing from household survey data to look at the diversity of …