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 … data on key areas, such as food security and other forms of vulnerability, paired with rigorous analysis of key political … economy developments since the outbreak of war, to tell the story of the country's evolving poverty context. To achieve this …

a successful transition from low-income to middle-income country status. As millions have moved out of poverty and … million people who are no longer in poverty and vulnerability into the middle class? The future of Indonesia lies partly in …Indonesia has seen tremendous progress in poverty reduction over the past couple of decades and, as a result, has made …

seen a reduction in the number of people living in poverty by nearly half and an increase in the size of its middle class …. Income inequality also decreased, as income growth has been primarily pro-poor in recent years. Despite variations across …-being across the region. Poverty projections for 2020 suggest that the number of the poor increased in most LAC countries. Brazil …

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 …

.20 dollars World Bank poverty line for lower middle-income countries is used as the cut-off to define poverty. Poverty reduction … poverty reduction and shared prosperity and to assess the drivers of poverty reduction in the last decade. The note documents … the remarkable progress that Bhutan has made in reducing poverty, sharing prosperity, and improving other measures of well …

Moldova has experienced rapid economic growth in the past decade, which has been accompanied by reductions in poverty … and good performance in shared prosperity. Nonetheless, Moldova remains one of the poorest countries in Europe and faces … reducing poverty and expanding shared prosperity and for addressing the problems associated with an aging population in a …