A joint analysis of poverty and living
standards was conducted by a technical team from the
Ministry of Planning and Finance, Government of Myanmar, and
the Poverty...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 118851Date: August 1, 2017
This poverty assessment analyzes recent
trends in monetary and nonmonetary aspects ofpoverty and
economic vulnerability in the Republic of Congo (ROC), based
on two...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 114706Date: August 1, 2017
A joint analysis of poverty and living
standards was conducted by a technical team from the
Ministry of Planning and Finance, Government of Myanmar, and
the Poverty...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 118851Date: August 1, 2017
This paper has the goal of presenting
the first comprehensive update of poverty, inequality and
shared prosperity trends – and key drivers of
these trends –...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 120346Date: June 22, 2017Author:
Cojocaru,Alexandru ;
Matytsin,Mikhail
Malawi’s monetary poverty is
high and did not lessen in rural areas between 2004 and
2010. The over-representation of poverty in rural settings
kept national...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 177281Date: June 1, 2017Author:
World Bank
A severe slow-down in Afghanistan's
economic growth characterized the period between 2012 and
2014, the so called Transition period leading to the 2014
election and...
This poverty assessment analyzes recent
trends in monetary and nonmonetary aspects ofpoverty and
economic vulnerability in the Republic of Congo (ROC), based
on two...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 114706Date: May 1, 2017
The Poverty Assessment for Comoros aims
to respond to this need and presents the first analysis
using the new household survey data from 2014. The present
report draws...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 125069Date: April 1, 2017
Tajikistan’s economy is not
creating sufficient jobs for its rapidly growing workforce,
in particular its burgeoning youth population. As a result,
its most valuable...
Moldova has experienced rapid growth and
increases in living standards in the past decade. The
economy has grown by an average 5 percent a year in the past
15 years,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 112338Date: December 1, 2016Author:
Merotto,Dino Leonardo ;
Weber,Michael ;
Aterido,Reyes ;
Scutaru,Adrian ;
De Padua,David Keith Santos ;
Saygin,Perihan Ozge ;
Petracco,Carly Kathleen ;
Dávalos, María
While the Timorese economy has shown
signs of faster growth in recent years, and public spending
has increased substantially, how the poor have fared through
this period...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 108735Date: September 27, 2016
This report provides a dynamic poverty
assessment of Mauritania between 2008 and 2014, the time
period included between the last two household budget
surveys (the Enquête...
Since early 1990’s, Burundi underwent
periods of repetitive socio-political tensions,
characterized by violent conflicts within the population,
positioning the country...
Burkina Faso is a West African Sahelian
landlocked country covering 274,200 square kilometers. In
January 2015, the population was estimated at just over 17.9
million....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 115122Date: June 1, 2016Author:
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Batana,Yele Maweki ;
Nokho,Cheikh Ibrahima ;
Guene,Herve Jean Louis ;
Bougna Lonla,Theophile
Moldova has experienced rapid economic
growth in the past decade, which has been accompanied by
reductions in poverty and good performance in shared
prosperity. Nonetheless,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 105722Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Dávalos, María E. ;
Nguyen,Tu Chi ;
Matytsin,Mikhail
Uganda’s progress in reducing
poverty from 1993 to 2006 is a remarkable story of success
that has been well told. The narrative of
Uganda’s continued,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: ACS18391Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence
National poverty rates are traditionally
measured using survey data. To allow for frequent monitoring
and to contain the costs of gathering detailed information,
such...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 104003Date: April 25, 2016Author:
Seitz,William Hutchins ;
Sattar,Sarosh ;
Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De
Tunisia emerges today the only success
story of the Arab Spring revolution that swept the Arab
world five years ago. This poverty assessment seeks to learn
from the...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 104913Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Cuesta Leiva,Jose Antonio ;
Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ;
Barry, Abdoul ;
Maratou-Kolias,Laura Maria ;
El-Laga, Abdel Rahman
Analysis of Sri Lanka’s
recent progress in reducing poverty and inequality is
directly relevant to the new government’s
development agenda. The newly sworn-in...
The agricultural and food production
sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food
insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to
modernize and integrate...
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