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 …, demographics, education, health, food security, safety and crime, persons with disabilities, and labor market indicators …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails …

(LMICs). Reducing PM2.5 air pollution is thus crucial for improving public-health outcomes in those countries. Measuring and … reducing the health impacts of PM2.5 is especially challenging in many LMICs because ground-level air-quality monitoring … Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? investigates the performance of satellites in LMICs for predicting outdoor …

inter-household inequality and poverty. …