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 …

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 … Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the country. The survey contains information on household expenditures, housing conditions …

Finance, Government of Myanmar, and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Poverty has previously been … poverty estimate based on 2009/10 standards of living was put forward by the World Bank in 2014 ("World Bank (2014 …)" methodology), using data from the IHLCA-II. The World Bank estimated poverty to be 37.5 percent in 2009/10 (World Bank, 2014) …

The Human Capital Index (HCI) is an international metric that benchmarks key components of human capital across … 2018 as part of the Human Capital Project (HCP), a lobal effort to accelerate progress towards a world where all children …

To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day … better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently, we need a food system that is more resilient and that shifts from …

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 …

were to be able to catch up with the rest of the world, and grow at 3.2 percent annually, the poverty rate would fall to 8 …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 …

In recent years, it has become clear that many children around the world are not learning to read proficiently. As a … 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 …

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 …