. Poverty stands at 48.6 percent nationally and almost 70 percent in rural areas; 21.3 percent are extreme poor, rising to 32 ….2 percent in rural areas5. The poverty rate hasn't changed much in five years. The poor rely heavily on subsistence agriculture … Government has recognized the importance of coupling growth with social protection to reduce poverty. The Government's National …

It has long been recognized that poverty is multidimensional, comprising not only insufficient income but also …-being. Since 2010 there has been rapid growth in the development and use of quantitative measures of multidimensional poverty. This … paper analyzes the construction and use of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Malaysia, which the Malaysian …

The July 2021 release of learning poverty estimates involves several changes to the data underlying the country …-level learning poverty figures. This document provides details of the key changes made. Some country-level estimates have changed or … cases where new assessment data call for a change to the learning poverty estimates, the corresponding enrollment data used …

appreciating the role of secondary towns in rural-urban migration and poverty reduction. Secondary towns occupy a unique middle …. Secondary towns therefore have great potential as vehicles for inclusive growth and poverty reduction in urbanizing developing …

In principle, the efficiency of poverty-oriented social programs can be increased dramatically through "targeting" an … eliminate poverty at less than 10% the cost of development programs that do not discriminate between poor and rich. No …

1989 annual meetings. Poverty, and its persistence alongside such wellbeing, is both a moral outrage and a threat to … security. The challenge of poverty is an economic, political and social one. Together, all those elements of change spell a … international agency in promoting development. But the Bank is only one of the forces fighting global poverty. More of it should …

This note describes how poverty measures reported by the World Bank can be replicated using the Stata command povcalnet …. Users can estimate poverty at any poverty line for the world, regions or sets of countries, by directly querying the World …