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This poverty assessment aims to strengthen the analytical foundation for poverty-reduction policies and interventions … in Mali. In recent years, important gains have been made across multiple dimensions of household welfare, but poverty in … Mali remains widespread and extreme. The COVID-19 induced crisis has reversed much of the progress in poverty reduction …
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pushed up to an additional people into poverty. Niger is further beset by vast infrastructure gaps, intensifying terrorism … attacks domestically, persisting conflict in the Sahel region, and intensifying environmental pressures. Robust poverty … enhanced security. This poverty assessment aims to strengthen the analytical foundation for poverty-reduction policies and …
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Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP-II), put an important emphasis on reducing poverty and vulnerability, enhancing equity in … provide a robust diagnostic of poverty and inequality in Burundi and bring new evidence to better inform policies aimed at … poverty alleviation and equity. This is complemented by data from various sources, including previous household surveys and …
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Sri Lanka has made strong progress in reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less well-off in recent years …. The poverty rate using the World Bank's 3.20 Dollars poverty line (in 2011 purchasing power parity) declined from 16 ….2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016, a reduction that compares favorably to regional peers. Extreme poverty is almost …
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This poverty assessment aims to inform poverty-focused policymaking in Chad. The report examines recent trends in … poverty, inequality, and other social indicators and identifies key constraints on poverty reduction. Although agriculture … drives macroeconomic growth, exports, and fiscal revenues. Eliminating poverty and boosting shared prosperity in Chad will …
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Nepal made significant progress on poverty and shared prosperity over the period 1996-2010, despite low domestic growth …. With consistently high rates of vulnerability and exposure to a range of shocks, the risk of falling back into poverty has … poverty assessment is organized as follows: Section 1 describes the data challenges, and highlights the evolution of measures …
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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 …
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Uganda's progress in reducing poverty during the late 1990s and early 2000s was remarkable. This note documents the … trends in poverty and inequality in Uganda with a focus on the period 2012 to 2016. It first explores how various indicators … of monetary poverty have evolved over time and if these trends vary by urban and rural areas and by region. This is …
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Moldova has experienced rapid economic growth in the past decade, which has been accompanied by reductions in poverty … reducing poverty and expanding shared prosperity and for addressing the problems associated with an aging population in a … the poor to shocks. The Moldova poverty assessment 2016 includes three prongs of analysis: this report, which explores …
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The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is …, which make up 95 percent of all farms, and explores their potential for growth and the poverty links. Findings reveal that …
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