Five priority programs were identified to help stabilize the economy and lay the groundwork for equitable growth. The …

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EGPRS), which presents main policy directions of the government with a focus on … economic growth acceleration and poverty reduction efforts. It describes the transition period of Mongolia, demographic trends … drawn from the household income and expenditure survey, the poverty situation, gender inequality, and poverty reduction …

Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial … reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight …, or wasted, undernutrition remains an important child health challenge. The existing literature highlights that the …

Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a … formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation in an attempt to overcome these obstacles, and to elevate the … and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates …

combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … poverty, inequality, and the potential fiscal cost are presented. The simulations show that there are potential efficiency …This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether …

growth rates and takes into account the effect of changes in within-country inequality. This paper then identifies key … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be … poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … confined to the poor within each population group (that is, "poverty targeted" transfers). The analysis finds that both the …

transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … resources to increase the size and coverage of pro-poor direct transfers programs may alleviate poverty and reduce inequality …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …