-war levels; reducing poverty from 69 to 54 percent; growing the economy by 8 percent annually between 1996 and 2003; expanding … poor, infrastructure is inadequate, there are serious unmet education and health needs, and poverty rates remain high. This … Memorandum examines the growth-poverty linkage, using a wide variety of data sources, including the recently completed national …

This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) finalized as the implementation period of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP …

objectives of state-building; sustained rapid, broad-based economic growth; and poverty reduction. Analysis of the Afghan economy … the Afghan economy and it s recent performance (Chapter l), and the poverty situation (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 outlines a … strategy for growth and poverty reduction, based on the NDF/SAF, and puts forward key strategic priorities and directions for …

objectives articulated in Bhutan's Vision 2020 document and the Ninth Five-Year Plan (Ninth Plan), discusses the poverty …

This report examines poverty trends and distribution of the poor in this larger context, paying particular attention to … the most recent past. The report contributes to our understanding of the progress made in combating poverty in three ways …. First, it updates our knowledge of poverty outcomes by examining the trends in poverty and vulnerability, as well as the …

Chad is among the poorest countries in the world. Around 55 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and … dramatic increase in revenues has been, however, mostly missed to date. Chad's first National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS … about 36 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty. The opportunity to reduce widespread poverty provided by the …

This assessment, reflecting poverty's many dimensions in Mozambique, combines multiple disciplines and diagnostic tools … to explore poverty. It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand trends in poverty and the dynamics … taking poverty's multiple dimensions into account. The first analysis is using multiple quantitative and qualitative …

This assessment, reflecting poverty's many dimensions in Mozambique, combines multiple disciplines and diagnostic tools … to explore poverty. It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand trends in poverty and the dynamics … taking poverty's multiple dimensions into account. The first analysis is using multiple quantitative and qualitative …

Latin America. Forty six percent of the population lived below the poverty line in 2005 (while 15 percent lived in extreme … poverty), and the incidence of poverty is more than twice as high in rural areas (68 percent) than in urban areas (29 percent … greater importance to economic growth than the strategy document that preceded it. This also serves as its second Poverty …