Nepal made significant progress on poverty and shared prosperity over the period 1996-2010, despite low domestic growth …. With consistently high rates of vulnerability and exposure to a range of shocks, the risk of falling back into poverty has … poverty assessment is organized as follows: Section 1 describes the data challenges, and highlights the evolution of measures …

This poverty and equity report provides updated poverty and inequality statistics from the Grenada Survey of Living … Grenada, examine poverty and inequality trends, and develop a basket of goods and services that can be used to estimate the …

Moldova has experienced rapid economic growth in the past decade, which has been accompanied by reductions in poverty … reducing poverty and expanding shared prosperity and for addressing the problems associated with an aging population in a … the poor to shocks. The Moldova poverty assessment 2016 includes three prongs of analysis: this report, which explores …

This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid … role of skills and labor market factors have grown in importance in explaining poverty and inequality while the role of … inequality outcomes. Social protection remains important in reducing extreme poverty, but the fiscal space for further expansion …

Around the world, countries use a wide variety of poverty measurement methodologies. A common method used to measure … poverty is based on levels of consumption - a person is considered poor if his or her consumption level falls below some … measuring poverty in the Maldives using a relative poverty line and presents findings of applying the poverty concepts in the …

poverty (an additional 28.7percent); most of the poor and vulnerable lived in the governorates of Upper Egypt. Clearly the … essential element of poverty reduction policy. Looking ahead, this report calls attention to the fact that re … policies that encourage job creation will be key to sustained poverty reduction. Revitalizing education and job creation will …

poverty, including the decisions taken to build the consumption-based welfare aggregate. The second objective of this note is …

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 poverty in the country, its strong link to labor market outcomes, and the … shows that over a fifth of the Djiboutian population continues to live in extreme poverty and that the country has high …

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty and inequality in Tanzania and identifies some priority … (1) provide a rigorous analysis of the evolution, profile, and determinants of poverty and inequality; (2) explore … actions if poverty is to be reduced. The analysis is contained in two parts. The first part is based on the results of the …

distribution system, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The latter two are among the largest anti-poverty …