There are many dimensions to poverty, and research and applications of new methods for better understanding this … multidimensionality have blossomed in the past 10-15 years. Malaysia established an official Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in 2015 … as a complement to the income-based poverty measure that has been in use since the 1970s. To date the MPI has not …

The paper, which serves as a gender background paper for the 2021 Malawi Poverty Assessment, is structured as follows …. It first presents the data and empirical strategy. Chapter two presents poverty data and discusses the intersection of … poverty and gender. Poverty by household composition is essential for understanding gendered differences in poverty. From …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains 203 country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for developing countries. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic …

This poverty assessment lays out the broad development challenges that Nigeria faces, which constrain the country …'s poverty reduction. The discussion provides the backdrop for the detailed analysis presented in later parts of the report …. First, the introductory section links Nigeria's macroeconomic performance with its prospects for poverty reduction …

The overall objective of this study is to assess the impact of the fiscal system on poverty and inequality in The … show that while the fiscal system in The Gambia reduces inequality by 1.2 Gini points, it increases the national poverty … poverty increase is due to custom duties and VAT with marginal contributions of -2.63 percentage points and -2.07 percentage …

the appropriateness of the benefit level under the current inflation situation for poverty reduction. This assessment is … delivery for the poor and vulnerable. If CT programs are to reach and aid the poor, then ensuring a correlation between poverty … targeting is weak, and the answer to the question is no, then scaling up the existing CT program may not achieve its poverty …

-response, it only includes 2,476 participating households. Poverty numbers presented in this note are not comparable with poverty … also due to differences in the methodology for constructing welfare aggregate and the poverty line. All regional estimates …

This note describes the methodology used for estimating trends in poverty rates for Iraq using the 2012 Iraq household … provide comparable and more frequent estimates of poverty, but fieldwork was disrupted in the second half of 2014 due to a … poverty line to establish poverty trends between the first half of 2012 and the first half of 2014 for all 18 governorates of …

policy recommendations for mitigating negative poverty and social impacts, should the government pursue a decision to remove …