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Bridging the Gap Between Data and Policies in Remote Rural Municipalities in Nepal (英语)

Nepal's transition to a federal system provides new optimism to achieve inclusive development and economic growth. However, the scarcity of locally disaggregated data and lack of capacity to use it stymie...

Serving the Underserved : Providing Relief to the Displaced Workers in Nepal During the COVID-19 Crisis (英语)

This note discusses the impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and lockdowns on Nepal’s domestic labor market, using data from the 2017-2018 Nepal Labor Force Survey (NLFS) and the 2018 National Economic Census...

Comparing Approaches to Project COVID-19 Effects on Poverty (英语)

Different studies use different approaches to forecast how many people will fall into poverty due to the outbreak of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), with largely different results. Even when using the same...

Beyond Raising Awareness : Promoting Handwashing in Nepal Amid COVID 19 Crisis (英语)

This report proposes a simple framework for policy actions to effectively promote handwashing in Nepal amid the COVID 19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Raising awareness about proper handwashing is the cheapest...

Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Bhutan BLSS Economic Census - P161338 (英语)

The development objective of the BLSS Economic Census Project for Bhutan is to support the National Statistics Bureau to collect, analyze and disseminate data by carrying out the Bhutan Living Standard...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Bhutan BLSS Economic Census - P161338 - Sequence No : 01 (英语)

Costing household surveys for monitoring progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity (英语)

On October 15, 2015, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced the World Bank Group’s commitment to support the 78 poorest countries to implement a multi-topic household survey every three years...

Who are the poor in the developing world ? (英语)

This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from...

Who are the poor in the developing world? (英语)

This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living less than 1.90 dollars and between 1.90 dollars and 3.10 dollars per day in 2013, based on household...

Trends and drivers of poverty reduction in Nepal : a historical perspective (英语)

Nepal made remarkable progress in poverty reduction between 1995 and 2010, a period coinciding with a decade-long violent conflict followed by tumultuous post-conflict recovery. Although improving agricultural...

Robustness of shared prosperity estimates : how different methodological choices matter (英语)

This paper is the first to systematically test the robustness of shared prosperity estimates to different methodological choices using a sample of countries from all regions in the world. The tests that...

Robustness of shared prosperity estimates : how different methodological choices matter (英语)

This paper is the first to systematically test the robustness of shared prosperity estimates to different methodological choices using a sample of countries from all regions in the world. The tests that...

Data deprivation : another deprivation to end (英语)

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of “ending...

Data deprivation : another deprivation to end (英语)

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ending...

Inequality in focus vol. 3 (no. 1) (英语)

The Inequality in Focus series aims at informing the public debate on equity, inequality of opportunity, and socioeconomic.This issue has the following headlines : Ending extreme poverty and promising...

Is extreme poverty going to end ? an analytical framework to evaluate progress in ending extreme poverty (英语)

The World Bank has recently adopted a target of reducing the proportion of population living below US$1.25 a day at 2005 international prices to 3 percent by 2030. This paper reviews different projection...

The state of the poor : where are the poor, where is extreme poverty harder to end, and what is the current profile of the world's poor? (英语)

Although the world witnessed an unprecedented pace of poverty reduction over the last decades, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty by more than 700 million, approximately 1.2 billion...