The purpose of this poverty assessment is to shine a new light on poverty, inequality, and its drivers in Costa Rica …. The report provides a descriptive overview of poverty trends in the country and examines why the poorest do not reap the …

further reduce poverty. Many urban labor market trends are moving in the right direction although there has been little change …

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 … reducing poverty and expanding shared prosperity and for addressing the problems associated with an aging population in a … the poor to shocks. The Moldova poverty assessment 2016 includes three prongs of analysis: this report, which explores …

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 …