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

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 land-based municipal revenue enhancement. The study carried out an in …

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 profiles poverty and assesses the performance of the social assistance (SA) system in the Turkish Cypriot … determinants of poverty in the TCc and on the effectiveness of the community's social assistance programs, with the ultimate … objective of putting forward recommendations on how to improve policy alleviating measures. The poverty profile developed in …

Poverty rates in Guatemala are among the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Guatemala is now the second … development, and poverty and seeks to understand this paradigm through a careful examination of trends in access to water and … sanitation and in corresponding linkages to poverty and health. It also reviews the governance structure and expenditure plans …

Half Full: Poverty Diagnostic of Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Conditions in Tajikistan documents the realities …

Bolivia made substantial progress in reducing poverty and inequality during the commodity boom, and despite the adverse … external context of the past five years, poverty reduction continued, albeit more slowly. Expansionary policies allowed the … country to continue growing and reducing poverty until the pandemic but did so at the expense of large macroeconomic …

This poverty assessment aims to strengthen the analytical foundation for poverty-reduction policies and interventions … in Mali. In recent years, important gains have been made across multiple dimensions of household welfare, but poverty in … Mali remains widespread and extreme. The COVID-19 induced crisis has reversed much of the progress in poverty reduction …

resilient poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Few jobs are being created, and indicators and consultations with civil … contribute to reducing poverty while promoting sustainable growth and shared prosperity …

Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCDs) analyze the most critical constraints and opportunities to ending extreme poverty … again assess the set of priorities through which Egypt can most effectively and sustainably achieve the goals of poverty …