The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to … meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19 …, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in …

understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and … geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of poverty in the country, its strong link to labor market outcomes, and the … shows that over a fifth of the Djiboutian population continues to live in extreme poverty and that the country has high …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

sustaining its gains on reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity over the next years. It will analyze the dynamics behind …, including its State led development strategy, large natural resource wealth, difficult geography and landlocked condition, and … growth and in the reduction of poverty and inequality over the past decade. An assessment of the recent past and current …

too weak and volatile to contribute to poverty reduction on a sustained basis. This systematic country diagnostic (SCD …

disparities in power and wealth between rural and urban areas. Wealth inequality exacerbated ethnic and class rivalries, leading …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid …. Second, although South Africa has made progress in reducing poverty since 1994, the trajectory of poverty reduction was … intergenerational mobility act as a brake on poverty reduction and as a result poverty is high for an upper middle-income country …