surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty …

Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One of these,pensions provided by the Social Security and … National Insurance Trust,has a long history, but others-the Ghana School Feeding Programme,Labor-Intensive Public Works program … government of Ghana's main social assistanceand social insurance programs. The study discusses the programs' maindesign and …

Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One, pensions provided by the Social Security and National …. This study assesses the performance of the government of Ghana's main social assistance and social insurance programs. It … the coverage rates of the programs, their incidence, and their effectiveness in reducing poverty and inequality, based on …

Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One of these, pensions provided by the Social Security and … National Insurance Trust, has a long history, but others-the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Labor-Intensive Public Works … program, Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty program, and National Health Insurance Scheme-have been introduced and …