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understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and … geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of poverty in the country, its strong link to labor market outcomes, and the … shows that over a fifth of the Djiboutian population continues to live in extreme poverty and that the country has high …
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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty and inequality in Tanzania and identifies some priority … actions if poverty is to be reduced. The analysis is contained in two parts. The first part is based on the results of the … (1) provide a rigorous analysis of the evolution, profile, and determinants of poverty and inequality; (2) explore …
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sustaining its gains on reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity over the next years. It will analyze the dynamics behind … growth and in the reduction of poverty and inequality over the past decade. An assessment of the recent past and current …
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decrease of national poverty rates. Other income groups can weather economic shocks much better. People in middle of the income … rate standing at 14.6 percent in the third quarter of 2020. Many individuals at the bottom of the income distribution work … in precarious jobs and lack a resilient source of income, forcing them to rely on public transfers during the pandemic …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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intergenerational mobility act as a brake on poverty reduction and as a result poverty is high for an upper middle-income country … manifested in very high levels of chronic poverty, a few high-income earners and a relatively small middle class. Fourth, the …This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid …
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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 …
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poverty, including the decisions taken to build the consumption-based welfare aggregate. The second objective of this note is …
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