-war levels; reducing poverty from 69 to 54 percent; growing the economy by 8 percent annually between 1996 and 2003; expanding … poor, infrastructure is inadequate, there are serious unmet education and health needs, and poverty rates remain high. This … Memorandum examines the growth-poverty linkage, using a wide variety of data sources, including the recently completed national …

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

This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) finalized as the implementation period of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP …

objectives of state-building; sustained rapid, broad-based economic growth; and poverty reduction. Analysis of the Afghan economy … the Afghan economy and it s recent performance (Chapter l), and the poverty situation (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 outlines a … strategy for growth and poverty reduction, based on the NDF/SAF, and puts forward key strategic priorities and directions for …

objectives articulated in Bhutan's Vision 2020 document and the Ninth Five-Year Plan (Ninth Plan), discusses the poverty …

This report examines poverty trends and distribution of the poor in this larger context, paying particular attention to … the most recent past. The report contributes to our understanding of the progress made in combating poverty in three ways …. First, it updates our knowledge of poverty outcomes by examining the trends in poverty and vulnerability, as well as the …