It has long been recognized that poverty is multidimensional, comprising not only insufficient income but also …-being. Since 2010 there has been rapid growth in the development and use of quantitative measures of multidimensional poverty. This … paper analyzes the construction and use of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Malaysia, which the Malaysian …

Sri Lanka has made strong progress in reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less well-off in recent years …. The poverty rate using the World Bank's 3.20 Dollars poverty line (in 2011 purchasing power parity) declined from 16 ….2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016, a reduction that compares favorably to regional peers. Extreme poverty is almost …

Zanzibar recorded an important decline in urban poverty, while rural poverty did not change, and poverty increased on … the island of Pemba Basic needs poverty and extreme poverty both declined by 4.5 and 1 percentage points, respectively, at … gains accruing to the poor and people in the bottom 40 percent remained limited. Poverty reduction was concentrated in urban …

incidence of poverty in Angola as of 2019 based on a monetary measure of welfare (monthly food and non-food consumption … expenditures per adult equivalent) is 32.3 percent at the national level. The incidence of poverty rates is almost three times … poverty. On the one hand, there is a traditional rural sector dominated by low-productivity subsistence agriculture. On the …

2000 and 2010, the percentage of people living in poverty fell from 59 to approximately 46 percent and then to 38 percent … by 2016 (NISR: national poverty line). Yet progress has not always been even, and challenges endure. With the COVID-19 … paramount to identify and implement cost-effective policies that foster broad-based growth and sustained poverty reduction …

This report relies on several data sources. The main source providing the poverty, inequality and labor figures herein …'s sample was drawn from the 2017 Census and allows for poverty figures to be representative at national and provincial as well … abundant post-harvest periods. The starting point for the analysis is chapter 1, which synthesizes progress in reducing poverty …