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-response, it only includes 2,476 participating households. Poverty numbers presented in this note are not comparable with poverty … also due to differences in the methodology for constructing welfare aggregate and the poverty line. All regional estimates …
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While LAC continues its progress towards becoming a middle-class region, in 2013 poverty reduction was slower than in … financial crisis. Driving the lower gains in shared prosperity and poverty reduction is the region's slowing economic growth … crucial role of labor earnings in poverty and inequality reduction, this report analyzes more deeply LAC's labor markets and …
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Over the last decade, research from many different countries has demonstrated the important role played by teachers in increasing students' learning and improving their academic performance. Studies from countries as different as the US and Indonesia have shown the enormous benefits that follow...
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Pakistan's female labor force participation (FLFP) remains low by regional and global standards. Furthermore, data show major disparities between rural and urban FLFP, with the latter being significantly lower. This note contains analysis of women's labor market outcomes as reported by women in...
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Policy makers across the Middle East and North Africa have for many years articulated plans to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and "new...
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Addressing regional disparities is key to unlocking Russia's potential to achieve stronger gains in growth and equity outcomes as well as to improve its institutional environment. While spatial disparities have been an important policy concern in Russia for a long time, inequalities across its...
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decline, an aging workforce, and having to constantly adapt to a sequence of economic shocks, Russia's unique economic …
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, the requirements of the workforce have changed as well. Manual labor is still necessary but no longer enough. The need is …
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Against the backdrop of increasing income inequality, this report uses spatial analysis to assesses whether disparities in access to basic infrastructure between Mozambique's lagging and leading regions are growing or declining and whether the public expenditure program is effective in...
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