This book reviews the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region with poverty and human development since … the mid-1980s. It finds that poverty rates did not decline by much during this period while health and education … indicators improved substantially. The stagnation of poverty rates is ascribed to the stagnation of the region's economies during …

North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … of other second-best strategies can be employed. Using imputation methods can help to measure monetary poverty …. Constructing non-monetary poverty and asset indexes from less robust surveys, using non-traditional surveys such as phone surveys …

North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … of other second-best strategies can be employed. Using imputation methods can help to measure monetary poverty …. Constructing non-monetary poverty and asset indexes from less robust surveys, using non-traditional surveys such as phone surveys …