The Poverty and Gender Assessment
examines the structural challenges to securing a robust and
inclusive recovery from the pandemic and sustained progress
in poverty...
While Iraq continues to experience a
surge in the number of coronavirus cases, the proportion of
the country’s population that is vaccinated
remains very low....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 170955Date: April 26, 2022Author:
Krah,Kwabena ;
Phadera,Lokendra
This poverty assessment represents the
culmination of the World Bank’s ongoing
engagement on poverty- and inequality-relevant data and
analytics in Nigeria throughout...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 169486Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Lain,Jonathan William ;
Vishwanath,Tara
Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly
from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic
linkages. Distant second, livestock export also provide
important...
This poverty assessment aims to inform
poverty-focused policymaking in Chad. The report examines
recent trends in poverty, inequality, and other social
indicators and...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 164764Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Savadogo,Aboudrahyme ;
Sanoh,Aly
Sri Lanka has made strong progress in
reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less
well-off in recent years. The poverty rate using the World
Bank's 3.20 Dollars...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 165145Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Kim,Yeon Soo ;
Paffhausen,Anna Luisa
Sri Lanka’s economy underwent
steady structural transformation over the last two decades.
During this time, economic activities increasingly shifted
toward industry...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 165161Date: October 1, 2021
Identifying opportunities to increase
agricultural productivity and incomes is an important
priority for rural development. Progress toward poverty
reduction continued...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 165160Date: October 1, 2021
The paper, which serves as a gender
background paper for the 2021 Malawi Poverty Assessment, is
structured as follows. It first presents the data and
empirical strategy....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 164210Date: September 23, 2021Author:
Gross,Melanie ;
Muller,Miriam ;
Caruso,German Daniel ;
Cardona Sosa,Lina Marcela
This poverty and equity report provides
updated poverty and inequality statistics from the Grenada
Survey of Living Conditions and Household Budget Survey
(SLCHBS) conducted...
Traditional measures of poverty have
focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum
threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods
and services. However,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 160145Date: June 8, 2021Author:
World Bank ;
UNDP ;
UNICEF
This poverty assessment provides an
in-depth diagnostic of the evolution of poverty and
inequality in Senegal between 2011 and 2018, reports on
current poverty estimates,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: AUS0002412Date: June 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
Nepal made significant progress on
poverty and shared prosperity over the period 1996-2010,
despite low domestic growth. With consistently high rates of
vulnerability...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 160703Date: May 10, 2021Author:
Lezama Manta,Amparo
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has
dealt a significant shock to Sri Lanka’s economy
and people. This note examines the expected impact on
poverty and inequality...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 158451Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Kim,Yeon Soo ;
De Silva,Tiloka Sunayani
This report presents detailed findings
of a teacher performance study in Lebanon, one of four
studies carried out under the research for results (R4R)
program, a partnership...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 170352Date: December 31, 2020Author:
Hosseini Matin,Anahita ;
Lahire,Nathalie ;
El Ghali,Hana Addam ;
Sedmik,Elisabeth ;
El Franji,Nadine Joseph ;
Yammine,Cynthia ;
Abdul-Hamid,Husein ;
Yassine,Mohamed ;
Bend, May
Ethiopia’s economy has grown
rapidly over the last two decades, leading to significant
national poverty reduction, but there were significant
differences in the...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 154442Date: November 17, 2020Author:
Beyene,Berhe Mekonnen ;
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Wieser,Christina ;
Yonis,Manex Bule
After the return to democracy, Ghana
achieved significant economic growth and poverty reduction.
However, in recent years, the rate of poverty reduction has
slowed,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: AUS0001903Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Dang,Hai-Anh H. ;
Shimmei,Keita ;
Stewart,Benjamin P. ;
Fatima,Freeha ;
Pavelesku,Dan ;
Abanokova,Ksenia ;
Opoku,Kwadwo
Lao People’s Democratic
Republic (PDR) has made substantial progress in poverty
reduction, despite the fact that its resource-based
development pattern has historically...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 153279Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Arayavechkit,Tanida ;
Cesar,Andres Manuel ;
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence ;
Pimhidzai,Obert ;
Tong,Kimsun
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