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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 …
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A joint analysis of poverty and living standards was conducted by a technical team from the Ministry of Planning and … Finance, Government of Myanmar, and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Poverty has previously been … data, poverty in Myanmar has been estimated using two different approaches. Poverty was initially measured by the …
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This assessment overcomes these limitations to develop a holistic analysis of poverty in Yemen. It is possible to use … economy developments since the outbreak of war, to tell the story of the country's evolving poverty context. To achieve this … matter experts. The assessment first examines data on food insecurity--a good stand-in for poverty figures in highly stressed …
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Sector Investment Programs (SIPs) are an important initiative for addressing several weaknesses of development aid practice. A SIP is an integrated program comprising a strategy for the sector, a government expenditure program, a management framework providing for common implementation...
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Bangladesh has been a star performer on fertility reduction, reducing its TFR from 6.7 in 1960 to 2.1 in 2017 (i.e. the replacement level of fertility). As a comparison, SSA countries reduced TFR by as little as 2 births per woman, on average, between 1970 and 2016 (World Bank, 2019), with...
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expected trends of select labor market and poverty indicators …
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This report analyzes issues related to international migration in Armenia and its impact on Armenian households' welfare. The report uses microdata coming from two recent household surveys, the 2017 Russian-Armenian University survey, a nationally-representative household focused on...
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Indonesia has seen tremendous progress in poverty reduction over the past couple of decades and, as a result, has made … a successful transition from low-income to middle-income country status. As millions have moved out of poverty and … extreme poverty, we have also witnessed the rise of Indonesia's middle class, which now accounts for 20 percent of the total …
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The Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) is a World Bank-supported regional program in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, Djibouti, and Kenya), which aims to improve access to social services, expand economic opportunities, and enhance environmental management for host...
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