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To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day …
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pushed up to an additional people into poverty. Niger is further beset by vast infrastructure gaps, intensifying terrorism … attacks domestically, persisting conflict in the Sahel region, and intensifying environmental pressures. Robust poverty … enhanced security. This poverty assessment aims to strengthen the analytical foundation for poverty-reduction policies and …
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Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase … monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty measures seek to address this shortfall and have been adopted as an official …, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions." A particular …
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In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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We identify the conditions in terms of economic growth and public transfers required to "...reduce poverty in the … Russian Federation by one half by 2024" as stated in President Putin's Decree of May 17th, 2018. The current poverty rate is … growth of 1.5 percent would bring down the poverty rate from 13.2 percent to only 10.7 percent by 2024. And even if Russia …
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major contributor to human capital deficits, the learning crisis undermines sustainable growth and poverty reduction. To … spotlight this crisis, we are introducing the concept of Learning Poverty, drawing on new data developed in coordination with …
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank's corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting … poverty in all its forms, but their key difference from the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is the integration of … delivery. With this understanding as its guiding compass, the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic …
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poverty and stubborn persistence of inequality to the devastations caused by climate disasters, fragility, pandemics, and … knowledge to a new level, placing it front and center of the WBG's work to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a …
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In the business of making policies, decisions are based on experience and guided by political concerns. However, in the business of delivering policies, the machinery of government is often taxed by delays and inefficiencies, and constrained by insufficient resources, management tools, and...
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The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature- and current levels of climate action are insufficient. Beyond the grim headlines, there are increasingly clear opportunities to achieve triple wins. To support the alignment of sustainable...
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