This paper explores why small area poverty estimates from models at the household level that only use aggregate data as covariates, exhibit systematic bias. The analysis demonstrates that this bias stems...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11110Date: May 1, 2025Author:
Corral Rodas, Paul Andres
The Country Opinion Survey in Saudi Arabia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Saudi Arabia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from...
Type: ReportReport#: 201648Date: May 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) presents the World Bank Group (WBG) strategy to support Liberia from FY25-30. The value-added of the new CPF rests on two factors: (i) selectivity around four key...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: CPF0000043Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
East Asia and the Pacific is one of the most dynamic regions in the world with growth of 5.0 percent in 2024. China’s economy expanded by 5.0 percent, the rest of the region by 4.9 percent, and the Pacific...
Type: ReportReport#: 201941Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Mauritius has eradicated extreme poverty, although in 2017, 13.5 percent of Mauritians were below the upper middle-income class poverty line of $6.85 a day (2017 PPP). The World Bank’s new measure of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 200694Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Malaysia has made significant progress in economic growth and poverty reduction, but inequality remains a challenge. The country is on a path to achieve high-income status by 2028-2030. However, due to...
Type: BriefReport#: 200696Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
More than a decade of conflict compounded by external economic shocks has led to a dramatic deterioration in the welfare of Syrian households. Return movements have increased since the fall of the Assad...
Type: BriefReport#: 200741Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
At the national level, poverty incidence in Chad increased by 2.5 percentage points between the most recent survey years, rising from 42.3 percent in 2018 to 44.8 percent in 2022. The country continues...
Type: BriefReport#: 200742Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
South Africa has made significant strides in reducing poverty since 1994, but progress stalled after 2011. The lack of progress in reducing poverty and inequality since 2011 can be attributed to slow economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 200761Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Monitoring progress on poverty and inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is complicated due to the lack of recent data. The poverty rate measured by the international poverty line of $2.15...
Type: BriefReport#: 200641Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The national poverty headcount rate fell by 10.7 percentage points from 2015 to 2023, reaching 24.8 percent in 2023, down from 35.5 percent in 2015, according to INE’s official estimates relying on a SWIFT...
Type: BriefReport#: 200645Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past twenty years, Ethiopia has made significant strides in reducing poverty; however, it has recently encountered a series of external and internal challenges that have adversely affected living...
Type: BriefReport#: 200651Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past decade, Croatia has made significant progress in reducing poverty, with real per capita household income growing at an average annual rate of 4.7 percent, leading to a decline in the poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 200664Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2015, fewer than one in ten Saint Lucians were poor, meaning they lived on less than $6.85 a day (in 2017 PPP), according to the latest available data. Given the current economic outlook, with real...
Type: BriefReport#: 200678Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Sahel Irrigation Strategy aims to guide participating countries to scale up irrigation expansion and modernization rapidly and responsibly with a more diverse suite of interventions to optimize the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 203011Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty reduction has been elusive in Burundi. Following the socio-political crisis of 2015, real per capita GDP contracted by an annualized rate of 1.9 percent between 2015 and 2020. Burundi's Human Capital...
Type: BriefReport#: 200623Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Despite being rich in mineral and other natural resources, the Central African Republic (CAR) is among the ten poorest countries in the world. Reforms are required to address poverty in CAR, focusing on...
Type: BriefReport#: 200636Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Despite two decades of economic growth, Cameroon’s progress in reducing poverty has been slow. Real per capita growth is projected to be insufficient to alleviate poverty over the next three years, resulting...
Type: BriefReport#: 200640Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Honduras remains one of the poorest and most unequal countries in the region. By 2023, about half of Hondurans (49.5 percent) lived on less than $6.85 per day (2017 PPP), the upper-middle income poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 200663Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
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