intergenerational mobility act as a brake on poverty reduction and as a result poverty is high for an upper middle-income country … manifested in very high levels of chronic poverty, a few high-income earners and a relatively small middle class. Fourth, the …This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid …

Around the world, countries use a wide variety of poverty measurement methodologies. A common method used to measure … poverty is based on levels of consumption - a person is considered poor if his or her consumption level falls below some … measuring poverty in the Maldives using a relative poverty line and presents findings of applying the poverty concepts in the …

poverty, including the decisions taken to build the consumption-based welfare aggregate. The second objective of this note is …

understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and … geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of poverty in the country, its strong link to labor market outcomes, and the … shows that over a fifth of the Djiboutian population continues to live in extreme poverty and that the country has high …

Nepal made significant progress on poverty and shared prosperity over the period 1996-2010, despite low domestic growth …. With consistently high rates of vulnerability and exposure to a range of shocks, the risk of falling back into poverty has … poverty assessment is organized as follows: Section 1 describes the data challenges, and highlights the evolution of measures …

sustaining its gains on reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity over the next years. It will analyze the dynamics behind … growth and in the reduction of poverty and inequality over the past decade. An assessment of the recent past and current …

The purpose of this poverty assessment is to shine a new light on poverty, inequality, and its drivers in Costa Rica …. The report provides a descriptive overview of poverty trends in the country and examines why the poorest do not reap the …

In the past three decades, the Philippines has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty. Driven by high growth … rates and structural transformation, the poverty rate fell by two-thirds, from 49.2 percent in 1985 to 16.7 percent in 2018 … core findings from background analyses of the patterns of inequality and poverty and provides policy pointers. The analysis …