Madagascar remains among the poorest
countries in the world, and has shown little improvement in
indicators of the well-being of its population over recent
years. The...
Madagascar remains among the poorest
countries in the world, and has shown little improvement in
indicators of the well-being of its population over recent
years. The...
The purpose of this technical note is to
describe how the welfare aggregate and poverty line were
constructed in Lebanon using HBS 2011. It is a part of
broader collaboration...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 112376Date: December 8, 2015
Living conditions of Botswana have
improved over the past decade and poverty has reduced
significantly. This decrease was accompanied by a
considerable decline in both...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 88473Date: December 1, 2015
Afghanistan’s per capita
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an average annual rate
of 6.9 percent during that period. In contrast, in 2007-08,
36 percent of...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 100638Date: November 4, 2015Author:
Ministry of Economy Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s per capita
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an average annual rate
of 6.9 percent during that period. In contrast, in 2007-08,
36 percent of...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 100638Date: October 1, 2015Author:
Ministry of Economy Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Mauritius is a high middle-income
country with low levels of poverty and inequality. The
headcount poverty level was 6.9 percent in 2012; measured by
the international...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 90006Date: September 1, 2015Author:
Sulla,Victor ;
Munoz Moreno,Rafael ;
Da Maia,Carlos Chadreque Penicela ;
Klapper,Leora ;
Van Oudheusden,Peter ;
Guven,Melis U. ;
Nikitin,Denis ;
Polodoo, Virendra ;
Randriankolona,Patrick Leon ;
Mazza,Jacopo ;
Heleniak,Timothy E.
Measuring poverty and tracking it over
time is an important prerequisite to national economic
planning. Absence of official data on household expenditure
or poverty...
This report examines
Armenia’s experience in reducing poverty and
raising the welfare of the least well-off in the country in
the years since 2009. What households...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 101680Date: June 1, 2015Author:
Sinha,Nistha ;
Meyer,Moritz ;
Tsirunyan,Sasun A.
Since the early 2000s, Tanzania has seen
remarkable economic growth and strong resilience to external
shocks. Yet these achievements were overshadowed by the slow
response...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: AUS6819Date: April 15, 2015
The last poverty assessment for Rwanda
was conducted in 1997. Three years after the genocide, the
country was characterized by deep and widespread poverty,
rock-bottom...
Many challenges were identified during
the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) in Zambia. To
address these challenges and realize pro-poor growth, the
Sixth National...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 95276Date: March 1, 2015Author:
De La Fuente,Alejandro ;
Murr,Andreas Erwin ;
Rascon Ramirez,Ericka G.
Since the early 2000s, Tanzania has seen
remarkable economic growth and strong resilience to external
shocks. Yet these achievements were overshadowed by the slow
response...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: AUS6819Date: March 1, 2015
This report consists of four chapters.
Chapter one profiles the trends in household consumption and
poverty rates, and in the characteristics of the poor
observed between...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 101230Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Molini,Vasco ;
Paci,Pierella
The report starts with an overview of
poverty and inequality estimates in chapter one, focusing on
the trends in poverty and the distributional pattern of
growth between...
Iraq appears to have firmly entered the
ranks of upper middle-income countries in 2012, having
experienced strong economic growth following the
establishment of a civilian...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 93858Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Al-Alaak, Mehdi ;
Krishnan,Nandini ;
Lima,Lycia ;
Olivieri,Sergio Daniel
Over the seven years from 2004 through
2011, Cambodian economic growth was tremendous, ranking amid
the best in the world. Moreover, household consumption
increased...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: ACS4545Date: May 26, 2014Author:
Sobrado, Carlos ;
Neak, Samsen ;
Ly, Sodeth ;
Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique ;
Gamberoni, Elisa ;
Arias-Vazquez, Francisco ;
Fukao, Tsuyoshi ;
Beng, Simeth ;
Johnston, Timothy ;
Joaquin, Miguel San ;
Bruni, Lucilla ;
de Groot, Richard
The vision 2021 plan and the associated
perspective plan 2010-2021, adopted by the Government of
Bangladesh lay out a series of development targets for 2021.
Among the...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 87656Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Gimenez Duarte,Lea R. ;
Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell ;
Sharif,Iffath Anwar
Despite a decline in both monetary and
multidimensional poverty rates since 2000, Haiti remains
among the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin
America. Two years...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 94430Date: January 1, 2014
Despite a decline in both monetary and
multidimensional poverty rates since 2000, Haiti remains
among the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin
America. Two years...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 94430Date: January 1, 2014
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