crucial for equitable growth and poverty reduction. Enhanced female employment and income also contribute to better priority …

Although poverty is the most stringent problem in Moldova, the existing research had been done primarily by the WB and … the UNDP. Measurement of poverty rates, rural poverty, and socio-economic characteristics of poor people had been the … major focuses of the existing research, however very little information exists on the distribution of poverty. This research …

National Statistics Office administers the Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). The APIS has been conducted in the years …

In the effort to effectively monitor the progress or drawbacks in the fight against poverty to formulate more effective … poverty reduction programs, the issue on comparability of the official poverty estimates through space and time has been … raised. The official estimates are said to be inconsistent across regions because these are based on poverty lines that vary …