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 … challenges in sustaining the progress. The challenges for progress include spatial and cross-group inequalities, particularly … markets to boost employment, especially in the nonfarm sectors, is critical for sustaining progress toward the twin goals of …

This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid …. Second, although South Africa has made progress in reducing poverty since 1994, the trajectory of poverty reduction was … intergenerational mobility act as a brake on poverty reduction and as a result poverty is high for an upper middle-income country …

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

sustaining its gains on reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity over the next years. It will analyze the dynamics behind … the progress achieved in the past decade on inclusive growth, and identify a number of key constraints for sustaining and … consolidating this progress. The SCD begins, in Chapter two, with a presentation of four characteristics that make Bolivia special …