This note describes the methodology used for estimating trends in poverty rates for Iraq using the 2012 Iraq household … provide comparable and more frequent estimates of poverty, but fieldwork was disrupted in the second half of 2014 due to a … poverty line to establish poverty trends between the first half of 2012 and the first half of 2014 for all 18 governorates of …

policy recommendations for mitigating negative poverty and social impacts, should the government pursue a decision to remove …

in inequality, enhanced health and well-being, and economic growth and prosperity. Policy recommendations are prioritized …

problem of underrepresentation of high-income households that is typical of household surveys. The second analysis, which is …-simulation technique and focuses on the effect of taxes on income distribution and on government revenues on the assumption that … Colombia's income tax reform serve the intended purpose of reducing income inequality. Results based on the constructed full …

household surveys not much was known about poverty. The lack of information poses a threat to the design and implementation of …

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is among the five poorest countries in the world, whether measured by poverty …

Reducing poverty and inequality continues to be an important national priority in Namibia. Vision 2030 - the country …'s guiding development strategy - has a subordinate vision that points to several goals: "Poverty is reduced to the minimum, the … existing pattern of income-distribution is equitable and disparity is at the minimum." Vision 2030 is being implemented via a …

income and consumption among the poor and non-poor. In this paper we examine the poverty and distributional impacts of the … million heads of livestock, the slowdown is likely to have significant impacts on poverty as well as the distribution of … are used as inputs into the model. Sections four and five examine the model's projections for poverty and distributional …

This policy note examines Thailand's programs for preventing poverty among the elderly, and suggests options for … 30 years, and the elderly already have a higher poverty rate than the population as a whole. Although Thailand currently … pension and social assistance programs aimed at preventing poverty among the elderly, target more spending at the elderly poor …

explores how policies to reduce poverty can be made more effective by taking these two factors into account. The crisis in … attention. To help answer such questions, and to analyze how to reduce poverty in Mali as a whole, this study uses different … instruments, while emphasizing that if the objective is poverty reduction, most attention should be focused on spatially blind …