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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … paper analyzes the construction and use of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Malaysia, which the Malaysian …

other sectors with low productivity. Agriculture did not contribute to poverty reduction as it had in the previous decade …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 …

monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty measures seek to address this shortfall and have been adopted as an official … not mandated, and each country is therefore expected to define its own national measure of multidimensional poverty. As … custodians for SDG Indicator 1.2.2, governments are responsible for reporting their measure of national multidimensional poverty …

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 …

Small area estimates of poverty and inequality statistics, through survey-to-census imputation that lets consumption be … predictions available for all households, inequality and poverty statistics can be estimated for small geographic areas (Elbers et … al, 2003).2 In the results below, the poverty statistics that are calculated by using the predicted consumption data for …

incidence of poverty in Angola as of 2019 based on a monetary measure of welfare (monthly food and non-food consumption … expenditures per adult equivalent) is 32.3 percent at the national level. The incidence of poverty rates is almost three times … poverty. On the one hand, there is a traditional rural sector dominated by low-productivity subsistence agriculture. On the …

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 … paramount to identify and implement cost-effective policies that foster broad-based growth and sustained poverty reduction …