Gabon’s abundant endowment of natural resources, strategic location, political stability, highurbanization, and youthful population create broad, though challenging, opportunities for povertyreduction and shared prosperity. Immediately after independence the oil boom propelled the countryto upper-middle-income status and brought major progress in living conditions. The thriving resource sector triggered large flows of rural population to urban centers...
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2020/06/01
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Poverty Assessment
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138955
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2
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2020/06/30
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Disclosed
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Executive Summary
Citation
Belghith,Nadia Belhaj Hassine; De Boisseson,Pierre Marie Antoine; Nakamura,Shohei.
Gabon - Poverty Assessment (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (French). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/874431593529928210