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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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environmental shocks as one of the six major causes of poverty. The Plan also observes that among the top four drivers of poverty is … to deliver improvements for livelihoods, reducing poverty, and building climate change resilience across all the …
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Finance, Government of Myanmar, and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Poverty has previously been … poverty estimate based on 2009/10 standards of living was put forward by the World Bank in 2014 ("World Bank (2014 …)" methodology), using data from the IHLCA-II. The World Bank estimated poverty to be 37.5 percent in 2009/10 (World Bank, 2014) …
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.20 dollars World Bank poverty line for lower middle-income countries is used as the cut-off to define poverty. Poverty reduction … poverty reduction and shared prosperity and to assess the drivers of poverty reduction in the last decade. The note documents … the remarkable progress that Bhutan has made in reducing poverty, sharing prosperity, and improving other measures of well …
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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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identifies the key challenges and opportunities for Burundi to accelerate progress in poverty reduction and shared prosperity in … living conditions; and (ii) the many competing 'binding' reasons for poverty in Burundi. Burundi is a densely populated, poor …
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The report is structured as follows. Chapter 1 discusses the labor market constraints facing different segments of the working-age population, which can inform how to make work attractive. Chapter 2 explores the factors that are discouraging older people from re-entering the labor market and the...
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The World Bank Group (WBG) has been active in public and private sector pollution management for the past several … Development Goals pertaining to environment and poverty, and the voices calling for new approaches through green new deal, green …
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-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …
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