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
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
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
Nicaragua's poverty rate was estimated at 14.4 percent in 2014, measured at US$3.65/day (2017 PPP). The economy is expected to grow by 3.6 percent in 2024 and stabilize in the medium term, with poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 200717Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The proportion of the population living below the national poverty line in Eswatini fell moderately from 63.0 percent in 2009/10 to 58.9 percent in 2016/17, driven by improvements in educational attainment,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200739Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Seychelles has made notable strides in reducing poverty, as recent data shows. In the second quarter of 2024, the overall unemployment rate was 3.2 percent, remaining the same as in the second quarter...
Type: BriefReport#: 200740Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Timor-Leste made significant strides in reducing poverty from 2007 to 2014, but the lack of recent data makes it difficult to assess current progress. Findings from the 2021 Labor Force Survey, however,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200746Date: 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
Indonesia’s poverty rate fell in 2024, continuing its slow downward trend driven by steady GDP growth since 2021. However, trade policy disruptions, weaker commodity prices, and domestic policy uncertainties...
Type: BriefReport#: 200666Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
After four successive years of poverty reduction, Jamaica's official national poverty rate increased from 11.0 percent in 2019 to 16.7 percent in 2021 following the COVID-19 crisis. Climate-related weather...
Type: BriefReport#: 200669Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Kenya's economic growth has not been sufficiently inclusive, and its link to poverty reduction has weakened. The impact of drought on food security has been significant, with FEWS NET estimating that 2.5...
Type: BriefReport#: 200672Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Lebanon's national poverty rate is still based on data from the 2012 Household Budget Survey, as no official update has been conducted in over a decade. The conflict that erupted in October 2023 and its...
Type: BriefReport#: 200676Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This document collection explores the intersection of economic development, social protection, and technological advancements. It examines how individuals and households navigate economic shocks, the role...
Type: ReportReport#: 201839Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
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