understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and … geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of poverty in the country, its strong link to labor market outcomes, and the … shows that over a fifth of the Djiboutian population continues to live in extreme poverty and that the country has high …

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty and inequality in Tanzania and identifies some priority … actions if poverty is to be reduced. The analysis is contained in two parts. The first part is based on the results of the … (1) provide a rigorous analysis of the evolution, profile, and determinants of poverty and inequality; (2) explore …

Between 2002 and 2012-13, most of the reduction in poverty was due to increased earnings, as opposed to higher … growth, strong poverty reduction, overcoming internal conflict, effecting a remarkable democratic transition in recent months … progress in ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity …

sustaining its gains on reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity over the next years. It will analyze the dynamics behind … growth and in the reduction of poverty and inequality over the past decade. An assessment of the recent past and current …

This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid …. Second, although South Africa has made progress in reducing poverty since 1994, the trajectory of poverty reduction was … intergenerational mobility act as a brake on poverty reduction and as a result poverty is high for an upper middle-income country …

Around the world, countries use a wide variety of poverty measurement methodologies. A common method used to measure … poverty is based on levels of consumption - a person is considered poor if his or her consumption level falls below some … measuring poverty in the Maldives using a relative poverty line and presents findings of applying the poverty concepts in the …

century, extreme poverty in Colombia almost halved, falling from 17.7 percent in 2002 to 7.4 percent in 2017. Similarly …, moderate poverty fell from 49.7 percent to 26.9 percent over the same period (Figures 1 and 2). In absolute terms, the number … downward trend in poverty was halted in 2016, however it went back to its downward trend on 2017. From 2016 to 2017 both …