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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 an impressive track record of reducing poverty and sharing prosperity more broadly. A dynamic decade that … reversal of welfare gains. Before COVID-19, poverty reduction was mainly driven by increased labor earnings from nonfarm … economic transformation and poverty reduction …
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activities increasingly shifted toward industry and services. Poverty fell significantly during this period, mainly led by …
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development. Progress toward poverty reduction continued in recent years, but the contribution of the agriculture sector was weak …
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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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