objective of this study is to analyze this poverty, so as to help design measures and policies to reduce it. The study also … seeks to understand the phenomenon of unemployment--the main cause of poverty-and propose actions to alleviate it. The … report is organized as follows: After Chapter 1, which explains the background of poverty and inequality in the Slovak …

This report examines poverty issues in the Kyrgyz Republic, focusing on three areas. First, it provides a summary of … the trends in poverty over the period 2000-2003 by drawing upon comparable data from the Household Budget Surveys from … extreme poverty by applying updated poverty analysis methodology. Third, the report provides a profile of the poor in order to …

Despite the impressive performance of the economy in the last five years, however, poverty in Albania has remained high … to adopt policies to share widely the benefits of growth, and reduce poverty, the Government outlined a poverty … alleviation strategy in the 2000 Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP), and developed it in detail two years later in …

to poverty were identified as critical to understanding the current situation, and to developing a poverty reduction … strategy. These questions are: a) what is the current poverty situation in Kazakhstan, b) what has been the impact of economic … growth on poverty, and, c) how effective is the social protection system in alleviating poverty. Six main findings on poverty …