addressing poverty, the Philippines is hindered by the limited expansion of its middle class. In the East Asia region over 2002 …-paying job opportunities that trap the poor in poverty, generation after generation. Children from poor households start life at … disasters buffet the poor, whose limited means to cope and disproportionate suffering push them deeper into poverty. Poverty is …

redound to poverty reduction in the island-region. Launched in 2017, the World Bank's Mindanao Jobs Report presented a …

In the past three decades, the Philippines has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty. Driven by high growth … rates and structural transformation, the poverty rate fell by two-thirds, from 49.2 percent in 1985 to 16.7 percent in 2018 … million. This report is intended to inform public debate and policymaking on inequality in the Philippines. It synthesizes …

other LAC countries before the Covid-19 pandemic, its poverty rates and social outcomes remain broadly similar to them. This … poverty reduction policies in the DR. The Poverty Assessment draws primarily on new analytical work conducted in the DR …, structured around four background notes on: (i) trends in monetary poverty and inequality, as well as the key drivers of those …

. This background paper to the Poverty and Gender Assessment Togo (2022) highlights the importance of addressing gender … disparities to achieve continued poverty reduction in Togo …

This report -- the Central African Republic's (CAR's) first ever poverty assessment -- draws on unparalleled microdata … to propose practical strategies for lifting Central Africans out of poverty. Against the backdrop of a wide range of … change --CAR urgently needs policies for reducing poverty. This report draws primarily on the 2021 Enquete Harmonisee sur le …

This report aims to map poverty and inequality in Sudan and would be representative of the 18 states and 131 localities … of Sudan. The poverty mapping technique is based on a small area estimation (SAE) technique developed by the World Bank … to derive estimates of geographic poverty and inequality. It combines data from the 2014-15 National Household Budget and …

competitiveness for poverty reduction and boosted shared prosperity, while achieving other development outcomes such as better …