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World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the summary measures and macroeconomic … among the rich when expenditures are assessed relative to consumption. At the extreme poverty line of USD 1.90-a-day, most …
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This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database. On the financial protection side, the changes include an increase in the number of indicators from five to 14; revisions to several previous data points,...
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The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are not as straightforward and easy to interpret as they appear on the surface. Review of the...
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This paper explores the investments needed to achieve universal access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, and the additional operation and maintenance costs these investments entail. It also explores the drivers of these costs, by exploring hundreds of scenarios that combine...
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Adding a module designed to measure land tenure-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators to the 2018 round of Zambia's labor force survey shows low transferability and high levels of tenure insecurity. Having a title is associated with greater transferability and reduced insecurity....
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variables, including access to drinking and irrigation water supplies and social vulnerability (that is, poverty), are overlaid …
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Development Goal-related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to … minimize the drawbacks of earlier studies. The paper also briefly reviews how the World Bank Group engages with stakeholders on …
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when considering the prevalence of poverty and chronic undernutrition at the upazilla level …
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