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Angola is endowed with significant natural wealth, but it will need to better manage these resources and reinvest them …, and Angola has suffered periods of fiscal contraction due to fluctuations in commodity prices. Although the country has … a window of opportunity for political and economic reform that will allow Angola to put itself on a path toward …
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Angola is the third-largest economy in the Sub-Saharan Africa and is classified as a low-middle income economy. The … incidence of poverty in Angola as of 2019 based on a monetary measure of welfare (monthly food and non-food consumption … rural areas in Angola is reflected in a large inequality at the national level. The Gini coefficient in Angola is 0.51 which …
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The objective of this report is to inform the government's policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note two examines internal migration in Rwanda, which is a recent phenomenon and remains fairly limited, with less than 10...
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In the context of Romania's push toward sustainable and inclusive development, the government has asked the World Bank to support the harmonization of public investments financed by the European Union and the state budget. The current report describes the national program for local development...
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In recent decades, economic growth in the Dominican Republic (DR) has been steady. However, growth has not occurred in such a way as to make the benefits widely and evenly available. In fact, although the DR economy grew faster than that of other LAC countries before the Covid-19 pandemic, its...
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Gender gaps in Togo cut across many dimensions. Inequality starts in childhood, when girls are disadvantaged in access to schooling because of prevalent social norms and gender roles. It continues into adolescence, when a larger share of girls starts dropping out of school, unable to continue...
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This report -- the Central African Republic's (CAR's) first ever poverty assessment -- draws on unparalleled microdata to propose practical strategies for lifting Central Africans out of poverty. Against the backdrop of a wide range of development challenges -- including persistent low growth,...
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This report aims to map poverty and inequality in Sudan and would be representative of the 18 states and 131 localities of Sudan. The poverty mapping technique is based on a small area estimation (SAE) technique developed by the World Bank to derive estimates of geographic poverty and...
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