The global economic context improved modestly in 2024, supported by easing inflation and a rebound in global trade. Kenya’s economy has slowed despite several improving macroeconomic indicators. The external...
Ядуурал бол хувь хүн эсвэл өрх гэрийн үндсэн хэрэгцээгээ хангах, нийгэмд бүрэн оролцох нөөц бололцоогүй байдаг олон талт үзэгдэл юм. Энэ нь нийгмийн гадуурхал, зайлшгүй шаардлагатай үйлчилгээний хүртээмжгүй...
Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon where individuals or households lack the resources to meet basic needs and fully participate in society. While it encompasses non-monetary dimensions such as social...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...