India's surge in growth and rapid
expansion in public spending in the past decade has created
new possibilities for its social protection system. The
growing importance...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 61275Date: January 1, 2011
In 2011 the statistical authorities of
Bosnia-Herzegovina collected for the first time a national
survey which allows monitoring the European indicators of
poverty and...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 97641Date: January 1, 2011Author:
Ceriani,Lidia ;
Ruggeri Laderchi,Caterina
The report is organized around the main
achievements and challenges Uruguay faces from the
perspective of expanding opportunities for children in the
XXI century, a...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 57551Date: October 1, 2010
Policy makers across East Africa realize
that weak professional services are impeding growth in their
countries. Recent studies have revealed a strong
relationship between...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 57672Date: October 1, 2010
Crime and violence are now a key
development issue for Central American countries. In three
nations El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras crime rates are
among the top...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 56781Date: September 1, 2010
The Niger Diagnostic Trade Integration
Study (DTIS) has been prepared under the Integrated
Framework (IF) for trade related technical assistance to
least developed countries...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 59968Date: September 1, 2010
Cameroon's growth achievement is
disappointing and the country is not likely to meet most of
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on its current
trajectory. Underemployment...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 48433Date: September 1, 2010
The objective of this paper is to
provide practical recommendations for improving the
effectiveness of the public financial management system as
inputs to the envisaged...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 56846Date: August 24, 2010
Despite substantial improvements in
access to basic education and steady economic growth, The
Gambia still faces considerable challenges in respect to
reducing poverty....
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 58987Date: August 1, 2010
Information derived from sanitary and
phytosanitary (SPS) surveillance and monitoring activities
is an increasingly important requirement for market access
and a crucial...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 56928Date: July 1, 2010
This study, a draft of which was shared
with the Government of Ghana in November 2009, provides a
basic diagnostic of the benefit incidence and targeting
performance...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 55578Date: June 30, 2010
This note analyzes the impact of the
economic crisis in 2008 on poverty and well-being,
government policies to mitigate the crisis, and possible
future policies to better...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 70584Date: June 28, 2010Author:
Simler, Kenneth ;
Smith, Owen
This note analyzes the impact of the
economic crisis in 2008 on poverty and well-being,
government policies to mitigate the crisis, and possible
future policies to better...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 70584Date: June 28, 2010Author:
Simler, Kenneth ;
Smith, Owen
The Small Area Estimation (SAE) of
poverty in Rural Bhutan was prepared with an objective to
provide a more disaggregated picture of poverty in Bhutan
down to the gewog...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 68179Date: June 21, 2010
Lao PDR is at a point on its development
trajectory where strategic attention to administrative
performance is crucial. An efficient and high-performing
civil service,...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 58018Date: June 1, 2010
Azerbaijan saw a substantial reduction
in poverty during the 2000s, owing to significant economic
growth and policies and programs that improved the
distribution of...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 52801Date: March 1, 2010
Ethiopia in the decade up to 2005 has
been characterized by robust growth rates of the urban
economy, where a still limited share of the population
lives. The urban...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 52848Date: January 1, 2010
The shortage of skills sought by key
export-oriented and import competing industries in Bosnia
and Herzegovina (henceforth, 'BH') is substantial
and if left unaddressed,...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 54901Date: December 1, 2009
This report is a joint product of the
Jordanian Department of Statistics (DOS) and the World Bank.
The report has four goals: 1) update the official Jordanian
poverty...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 47951Date: November 1, 2009
This report is a joint product of the
Jordanian Department of Statistics (DOS) and the World Bank.
The report has four goals: 1) update the official Jordanian
poverty...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 47951Date: November 1, 2009
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