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Yemen poverty notes (English)

Yemen is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. Following the Houthi capture of Sana’a in September 2014 and the gradual takeover of government institutions in the first quarter of 2015, the incumbent government, including President Hadi, fled and took refuge in the southern port city of Aden and later in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Houthis kept pressing south while a Saudi Arabian-led coalition of nine Arab countries initiated a military campaign to restore the ousted government to power. This plunged the country into a civil war that is still ongoing. This conflict has had wide-ranging effects. In the midst of these events, this note projects the poverty rate in 2016 utilizing the 2014 Yemen Household Budget Survey (HBS). Coming almost a decade after the last similarly comprehensive analysis of living standards was carried out in the country using the 2005 version the data, the survey provides insight in how households might adapt to the conflict, and also provides a useful benchmark of income and non-income dimensions of poverty in 2014 before the conflict escalated in 2015. Additionally, particular attention is paid to food security and social protection given their importance following the escalation of the conflict.

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  • Author

    Tiwari,Sailesh

  • Document Date

    2017/06/01

  • Document Type

    Working Paper

  • Report Number

    116403

  • Volume No

    1

  • Total Volume(s)

    1

  • Country

    Yemen, Yemen Republic of

  • Region

    Middle East and North Africa,

  • Disclosure Date

    2017/10/30

  • Disclosure Status

    Disclosed

  • Doc Name

    Yemen poverty notes

  • Keywords

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Tiwari,Sailesh

Yemen poverty notes (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/147231509378508387/Yemen-poverty-notes

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