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Macroeconomic management in Chad, Mali and Niger needs to account for a number of specific parameters. Very rapid population growth exerts immense pressure on the demand for education and health services. Economic activity and prices are strongly influenced by climatic variations, and exports...
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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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goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity …
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Global growth is broadly stable but downside risks from rising trade tensions are increasing.A weakening recovery in trade and manufacturing activities is weighing down global growth. Global goods trade has decelerated more rapidly than expected. U.S. tariff s and the retaliatoryresponses of its...
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extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. The systematic and evidence-based analysis from the … contributed to a slow pace of poverty reduction. Very little progress has been made in reducing poverty in rural areas, where most … economic growth. The third part analyses poverty and shared prosperity in Malawi and their main drivers. The fourth part …
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sustainable development.The Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) for Angola identifies pathways and priorities to eradicate poverty … growth and poverty reduction in Angola. A weak private sector is unable to provide a sustained growth momentum, further … constraining growth and poverty reduction. The poor remain excluded from growth, limiting realized growth, but more importantly …
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underperformed. Poverty in Ethiopia deceased substantially over the past decade, although by less than what would have been expected …-2016 poverty analysis study, by taking a closer look at some of the household-level welfare trends between 2011 and 2016 …
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poverty incidence and high levels of inequality within Afghanistan, the knowledge of living standards at more disaggregated …. Therefore, poverty mapping, which aims at estimating poverty incidence at levels lower than the household survey, was applied in … poverty maps and presents the resulting collection of poverty maps, the first of its kind for Afghanistan. The structure of …
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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 can be reduced in the country. That notwithstanding, the country's agricultural production system is one of the least … contribute to poverty reduction, including assessing the drivers of, and identifying the constraints to, increasing agricultural … the limited public funds more strategically and better correspond with local poverty. The findings from this study …
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