Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase … monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty measures seek to address this shortfall and have been adopted as an official …, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions." A particular …

Rwanda is renowned among African countries for the rapid advances achieved in its population's standard of living … 2000 and 2010, the percentage of people living in poverty fell from 59 to approximately 46 percent and then to 38 percent … by 2016 (NISR: national poverty line). Yet progress has not always been even, and challenges endure. With the COVID-19 …

of the poor. Concepts such as anti-poverty targeting, market access or rural electrification seem far more relevant - and … twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, big data is big news - and this is just the beginning … help the World Bank Group (WBG) better work towards ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. To position WBG …

) are associated with nonfarm job creation and poverty reduction. By focusing on Rwanda's 416 geographic sectors for the … sector level was associated with a 1.2 percent lower multidimensional poverty index and 1.4 point higher share of nonfarm … Kigali, and/or had better market access. Although increasing population density was profoundly associated with poverty …

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 … Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the country. The survey contains information on household expenditures, housing conditions …

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 …

paper analyzes the construction and use of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Malaysia, which the Malaysian …It has long been recognized that poverty is multidimensional, comprising not only insufficient income but also …-being. Since 2010 there has been rapid growth in the development and use of quantitative measures of multidimensional poverty. This …

Sri Lanka has made strong progress in reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less well-off in recent years …. The poverty rate using the World Bank's 3.20 Dollars poverty line (in 2011 purchasing power parity) declined from 16 ….2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016, a reduction that compares favorably to regional peers. Extreme poverty is almost …

Zanzibar recorded an important decline in urban poverty, while rural poverty did not change, and poverty increased on … the island of Pemba Basic needs poverty and extreme poverty both declined by 4.5 and 1 percentage points, respectively, at … gains accruing to the poor and people in the bottom 40 percent remained limited. Poverty reduction was concentrated in urban …