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Nepal is emerging from a series of crippling shocks. Barely recovered from the devastation and loss wreaked by the … underpinnings of the demand for inclusion that has so fundamentally shaped Nepal's contemporary socio-political landscape. Finally …
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Nepal made significant progress on poverty and shared prosperity over the period 1996-2010, despite low domestic growth … remained an enduring feature of the welfare narrative in Nepal. The past decade, from 2010 to 2020, has been characterized by a … Nepal. These shocks were also correlated with declines in economic growth. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, which started …
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Nepal's recent transition to a federal state structure provides a historic juncture to realize the role that social …
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In recent decades, economic growth in the Dominican Republic (DR) has been steady. However, growth has not occurred in such a way as to make the benefits widely and evenly available. In fact, although the DR economy grew faster than that of other LAC countries before the Covid-19 pandemic, its...
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Gender gaps in Togo cut across many dimensions. Inequality starts in childhood, when girls are disadvantaged in access to schooling because of prevalent social norms and gender roles. It continues into adolescence, when a larger share of girls starts dropping out of school, unable to continue...
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This report -- the Central African Republic's (CAR's) first ever poverty assessment -- draws on unparalleled microdata to propose practical strategies for lifting Central Africans out of poverty. Against the backdrop of a wide range of development challenges -- including persistent low growth,...
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This report aims to map poverty and inequality in Sudan and would be representative of the 18 states and 131 localities of Sudan. The poverty mapping technique is based on a small area estimation (SAE) technique developed by the World Bank to derive estimates of geographic poverty and...
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Rice is an important agricultural product and food staple in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), especially for its three low-income members - Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar. These countries are net exporters of rice, similar to their more advanced neighbors, Thailand and Vietnam, but their rice...
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