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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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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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Innovation to Strengthen Social Protection and Nutritional Support within a Tuberculosis Control Program : Evidence and Emerging Lessons from India

World Bank Group - 2022

economic investment. In line with this, the Government of India (GOI) has a target of elimination of TB by 2025, through … NPY's early implementation of DBT in three states and six districts in India …

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Risks to Poverty, Vulnerability, and Inequality from COVID-19 : Nepal Light Poverty Assessment

World Bank Group - 2021

Nepal. These shocks were also correlated with declines in economic growth. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, which started … of non-monetary welfare, pre-COVID; section 2 provides an overview of the impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nepal; and … section 3 highlights the role of pre-existing vulnerabilities and structural issues in making the Coronavirus (COVID-19 …

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