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Sierra Leone 2021 Economic Update : Welfare and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

World Bank Group - 2021

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Poverty and Food Security in Brazil during the Pandemic

World Bank Group - 2022

In contrast with the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil's poverty rate is estimated to have decreased between 2019 and 2020 to 13.1 percent. Auxilio Emergencial (AE), a large emergency cash transfer program launched in April 2020, is believed to be the main driver of that decrease,...

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Sri Lanka Development Update 2021 : Economic and Poverty Impact of COVID-19

World Bank Group - 2021

Amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Sri Lanka's economy contracted by 3.6 percent in 2020, the worst growth … second quarter helped contain the first wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) successfully, but these measures hit sectors like … open despite a second wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections. The special focus section of this edition discusses the …

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Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar

World Bank Group - 2022

This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar's poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to extract lessons from the Myanmar Poverty Assessment and the World Bank High-Frequency Phone...

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Poverty and Social Impact Assessment of Systematic Registration on Rural Romania

World Bank Group - 2016

The objective of this Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is to assess the impact of systematic registration on vulnerable individuals, in general, and Roma, in particular. Specifically, this PSIA focuses on the systematic registration approach piloted under the Complementing EU Support...

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Guatemala's Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Poverty Diagnostic : Challenges and Opportunities

World Bank Group - 2018

Poverty rates in Guatemala are among the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Guatemala is now the second poorest country in the region, with only post-earthquake Haiti being poorer. Guatemala is an extreme outlier in the region in terms of chronic malnutrition, and almost half of all...

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Greater Maputo : Urban Poverty and Inclusive Growth

World Bank Group - 2017

The overall objective of the Maputo Urban Poverty and Inclusive Growth Study is to inform the municipal governments of Maputo and Matola in the Greater Maputo Area (GMA) on how to better target and finance urban poverty reduction programs by building critical knowledge on urban poverty and...

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Challenges to Inclusive Growth : A Poverty and Equity Assessment of Djibouti

World Bank Group - 2019

The objective of this report is to present a snapshot of the welfare landscape in Djibouti that will help stakeholders understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of...

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Pathways to Reducing Poverty and Sharing Prosperity in India : Schemes to Systems - Lessons from Social Protection in India

World Bank Group - 2019

countries like India aspire to grow further and navigate a phase of rapid economic transformation, investments in social … articles take stock of India's major social protection programs, including pension programs, health insurance, the public …-poverty measures in India and indeed the world, while the former are relatively new instruments for unorganized workers. However, these …

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Glass Half Full : Poverty Diagnostic of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Conditions in Tajikistan

World Bank Group - 2017

Located on the western tip of the Himalayas, Tajikistan has abundant fresh water resources in its rivers, lakes, and glaciers. Yet, access to improved drinking water, and to sanitation connected to a functioning sewerage system, are among the most severe and unequally distributed services in the...

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