This poverty assessment report has three
main objectives: 1) to conduct an in-depth, multi-
dimensional analysis of poverty building on the framework of
the World B...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24221Date: February 20, 2003
Bangladesh has made recent progress in
reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly
half its citizens live in deprivation. This report examines
the record...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24299Date: December 31, 2002
Based on the analysis of the household
budget survey, the report identifies a nationally widespread
poverty, pervasive in rural areas, concentrated in four
governorates....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24422Date: December 11, 2002
The report updates the poverty situation
in Armenia, largely based on the Integrated Living
Conditions Survey conducted during 1998-99, and provides as
well, the foundation...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24339Date: December 9, 2002
The report appraises the impact of
economic development, or lack thereof, on the welfare of the
Colombian population, and the poor in particular, over the
last two decades,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24524Date: November 1, 2002
The sharp reduction in poverty in
Bulgaria since the 1997 crisis highlights the role of
effective economic stabilization policies and the social
safety nets in improving...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24516Date: October 29, 2002
This report is part of an ongoing
project to understand poverty, growth, and human development
in Pakistan. It argues that if the country does not close
its social gap,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24296Date: October 28, 2002
Why is there still severe deprivation in
Ceara after so many years of active development eforts? Have
government programs been well-designed? What can be done
differently...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24500Date: July 16, 2002
Why is there still severe deprivation in
Ceara after so many years of active development eforts? Have
government programs been well-designed? What can be done
differently...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24500Date: July 16, 2002
The report, the first in an ongoing
program, presents the results of a statistical analysis of
household-level data for the periods 1995/1996, and
1999/2000, as a contribution...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24234Date: June 29, 2002
The report, the first in an ongoing
program, presents the results of a statistical analysis of
household-level data for the periods 1995/1996, and
1999/2000, as a contribution...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24234Date: June 29, 2002
The report presents a diagnostic of
poverty, human development, and access to social
infrastructure in Bolivia, based on analytical work, to
serve as an input for the...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 20530Date: June 28, 2002
This Poverty Assessment report reviews
the evolution, and nature of poverty in Sri Lanka, by
examining why its significant, recent economic downturn
contrasts sharply...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 22535Date: June 26, 2002
Although attention has focused on public
sector initiatives to fight corruption on the demand side,
private companies in every region have developed programs to
fight...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 24852Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Berenbeim, Ronald E. ;
Arvis, Jean-Francois
This povert y update finds the
following: Between 1997 and 2000, poverty has increased
unambiguously, for a full set of poverty lines and
definitions of poverty measures....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 22350Date: January 10, 2002
As Kosovo goes beyond the emergency
relief phase, taking into consideration the situation of
those that the conflict has left behind is vital to the
effectiveness of...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 23390Date: December 20, 2001
As Kosovo goes beyond the emergency
relief phase, taking into consideration the situation of
those that the conflict has left behind is vital to the
effectiveness of...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 23390Date: December 20, 2001
Since its recovery of macroeconomic
stability in 1991, the Dominican Republic has experienced a
period of notable economic growth. Poverty has declined in
the 1990s....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 21306Date: December 17, 2001
Since its recovery of macroeconomic
stability in 1991, the Dominican Republic has experienced a
period of notable economic growth. Poverty has declined in
the 1990s....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 21306Date: December 17, 2001
This is the sixth issue of the
"Thailand Social Monitor." It is written for Thai
policymakers, to provide them with the best evidence
currently available on poverty...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 23147Date: November 30, 2001
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