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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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To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day … better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently, we need a food system that is more resilient and that shifts from …
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In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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poverty and stubborn persistence of inequality to the devastations caused by climate disasters, fragility, pandemics, and … knowledge to a new level, placing it front and center of the WBG's work to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a …
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to improve the quality and reproducibility of development research around the world …
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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 …
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. The poverty rate using the World Bank's 3.20 Dollars poverty line (in 2011 purchasing power parity) declined from 16 …Sri Lanka has made strong progress in reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less well-off in recent years ….2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016, a reduction that compares favorably to regional peers. Extreme poverty is almost …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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