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As Botswana braces for an election year, it confronts a sobering reality: rising poverty levels, underscored by stark inequalities across various demographic

The World Bank developed the Survey of Well-Being via Instant and Frequent Tracking (SWIFT) in 2014 to speed up and streamline poverty and inequality monitoring. It applies machine-learning techniques to the latest available household survey data to generate high-frequency poverty estimates that are comparable with official statistics.

How do floods affect people, especially the poorer population, living in flood-prone areas? What attracts them to settle in these areas and how do they cope with the impacts of floods?

The National Statistics Office (NSO) of Mongolia and the World Bank announced December 30, 2021 their joint official poverty rate estimation for 2020. The two organizations have collaborated on poverty measurement based on household consumption surveys since 2002.

The National Statistics Office (NSO) of Mongolia and the World Bank announced December 30, 2021 their joint official poverty rate estimation for 2020. The two organizations have collaborated on poverty measurement based on household consumption surveys since 2002.

Monitoring Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Refugees in Uganda: Results from the High-Frequency Phone Survey First round (October/November 2020) Format ✓ The employment rate among refugees was low, reaching 43 percent in October/November 2020. This was significantly lower than the employment rate among Ugandans which reached 90 percent in September/October 2020. Refugees in Kampala had the lowest employment rate (27 percent). ✓ The sector and type of employment among refugees diff...

Data-driven tools can support decision-making and improve implementation – especially in crises like COVID-19 Following major shocks due to conflict, natural disasters, or even pandemics such as COVID-19, this kind of data collection can be impossible—or too slow to be useful. Governments and development organizations can sometimes find themselves in a catch-22, with well-designed interventions being most needed in the very places where timely data are impossible to collect. To improve our...