This document summarizes the findings of
three reports: Urban Poverty in Mexico, Mexico: a Study of
Rural Poverty, and Mexico: an Overview of Social Protection,
and,...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 32884Date: August 1, 2005
This policy note summarizes the efforts
to improve the targeting and poverty impact of the Samurdhi
program, through a combination of reforms: re-orienting the
selection...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 69641Date: June 1, 2005
This report highlights the relationship
between poverty, risk and vulnerability facing the people of
Afghanistan. The report is divided in to five chapters:
Chapter...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 29694Date: March 7, 2005
In many low income African countries,
three factors are placing an undue burden on the elderly.
First, the burden on the elderly has enormously increased
with the increase...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 32178Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Kakwani,Nanak Chand ;
Subbarao,Kalanidhi
Though the national education system,
including primary education, is neither compulsory, nor free
in Mozambique, the school network has witnessed an
impressive expansion...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 29423Date: January 31, 2005
In Bangladesh the official poverty rates
are produced at the national and division levels only using
household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data. While
the...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 69533Date: January 1, 2005
This report summarizes and consolidates
the findings of three Bank studies on poverty issues in
Mexico, written as part of the second phase of this work:
Urban Poverty,...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 36853Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C. ;
Saavedra Chanduvi,Jaime
In 1989, Albania's rigid political
and socioeconomic structure shattered beyond repair.
Turbulence soon invaded every domain of life. As the state
imploded, so did the...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 31011Date: December 29, 2004
A critical objective of Egypt's
long-run development plan (through 2022), is the
"alleviation of poverty and attenuation of income
disparities." Contributing to the...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 27954Date: September 25, 2004Author:
Devarajan, Shantayanan [editor] ;
Gersovitz,Mark ;
Hammer,Jeffrey S. ;
Hoeberle, Stefan ;
Khan,Safa Mohsin ;
Martin, Will ;
Rama,Martin G. ;
Sharma, Sunil
More than three years of Intifada and
closures have plunged the Palestinian economy into deep
crisis, causing dramatic declines in living standards. This
report focuses...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 30150Date: October 1, 2003
Increasingly severe poverty among Roma
in Central and Eastern Europe has been one of the most
striking developments in the region since the transition
from socialism...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 30176Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Ringold, Dena ;
Orenstein, Mitchell A. ;
Wilkens, Erika
This report examines the role of
infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far
behind the rest of the country. More importantly, it looks
at how improved infrastructure...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 27195Date: December 1, 2002
This report provides an overview of
poverty in Ethiopia. It takes a multidimensional view of
poverty and examines urban-rural and regional differences.
The available...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 19804Date: October 22, 1999
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