further reduce poverty? The poverty assessment report aims to answer these questions. This report measures poverty in Yemen in … 2005-06, and evaluates the change in poverty compared to 1998, the two years for which comparable household budget surveys …-year economic plans and captures the effect of the economic reform programs launched since 1995. In addition to measuring poverty …

, extreme poverty could be almost eradicated and inequalities significantly reduced. And as inequalities decline, the social …

Bangladesh has made recent progress in reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly half its citizens … and priority measures to accelerate poverty reduction. The report suggests that changes in practices an policies, to … social justice. Dramatically lowering the incidence of poverty requires significantly higher levels of economic performance …

In Bangladesh the official poverty rates are produced at the national and division levels only using household income … large variations in poverty incidence within the east and the west. Mapping the data at lower levels allows for easier … recognition of important patterns at local and community scale levels. Poverty mapping is a statistical exercise to estimate the …

This report presents a detailed analysis of household poverty and its drivers - family, labor and human capital … outcomes, social assistance transfers, and geography - based on new expenditure based poverty measures. The report is the … the World Bank to develop new poverty measures and maps that produce poverty estimates at highly disaggregated levels. The …

This study has two objectives, the first of which is to revise the national poverty lines of Armenia. The Government of … Armenia expressed its desire for revised poverty lines that more accurately reflect the current consumption and expenditure … of this study is to assess the changes in poverty incidence in the aftermath of the global recession. This note updates …

Poverty Measurement Study (BRAPOV) that supported a program of analytical work and technical support via an in …-depth assessment of the measurement of poverty and inequality in Brazil. The survey not only presented an opportunity for in … measurement of poverty in Brazil in order to construct poverty lines for the different regions of Brazil; detailed spatial price …

advances in recent years, there are a variety of elements in current poverty measurement and mapping practices in Central … America that are susceptible to further improvement. The purpose of this note is to take stock of current poverty measurement … practices and the status of statistical capacity for effective poverty measurement in Central America. The first section reviews …