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

    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...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 157078 Document Date: February 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Walcher,Alexandra,Adhikary,Phanindra,Tamang,Urmila,Uematsu,Hiroki,Banick,Robert Steven,Maharjan,Liza,Shrestha,Tanuja

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

    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...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 151252 Document Date: July 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Yoshida,Nobuo,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Uematsu,Hiroki,Wu,Haoyu,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Gupta,Dixita

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

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 149987 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Uematsu,Hiroki,Joshi,Sushant,Maharjan,Liza

  • Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Bhutan BLSS Economic Census - P161338 (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Project Paper Report No.: RES31349 Document Date: April 24, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Uematsu,Hiroki

  • Who are the poor in the developing world ? (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7844 Document Date: October 2, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castaneda Aguilar,Raul Andres,Doan,Thi Thuy Dung,Newhouse,David Locke,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Uematsu,Hiroki,Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De

  • Who are the poor in the developing world? (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125589 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castaneda,Andres,Doan,Thi Thuy Dung,Newhouse,David Locke,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Uematsu,Hiroki,Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De

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

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7830 Document Date: September 21, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Uematsu,Hiroki,Shidiq,Akhmad Rizal,Tiwari,Sailesh

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

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7611 Document Date: March 18, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Atamanov,Aziz,Wieser,Christina,Uematsu,Hiroki,Yoshida,Nobuo,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Dewina,Reno

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

    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...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125516 Document Date: March 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Atamanov,Aziz,Wieser,Christina,Uematsu,Hiroki,Yoshida,Nobuo,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Dewina,Reno

  • Data deprivation : another deprivation to end (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7252 Document Date: April 28, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Serajuddin,Umar,Uematsu,Hiroki,Wieser,Christina,Yoshida,Nobuo,Dabalen,Andrew L.

  • Data deprivation : another deprivation to end (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125597 Document Date: April 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Serajuddin,Umar,Uematsu,Hiroki,Wieser,Christina,Yoshida,Nobuo,Dabalen,Andrew L.

  • Inequality in focus vol. 3 (no. 1) (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 88462 Document Date: May 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Olinto,Pedro,Sobrado,Carlos E.,Uematsu,Hiroki,Kim,Yeon Soo,Ashwill,Maximillian Shen