Promoting Shared Prosperity in South Asia

The geography of poverty has changed. More than 70 percent of the world s poor live not in low-income countries, but in middle-income countries. In 2008, nearly 570 million people lived on less than US$1.25 a day in South Asia, compared to 385 mill...

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Main Authors:	Ghani, Ejaz, Iyer, Lakshmi, Mishra, Saurabh
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM BANK POLICY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES CHANGES IN POVERTY COMMERCIAL INVESTMENTS DEBT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICY EFFICIENCY OF RESOURCE USE EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXTREME POVERTY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL RESOURCES FISCAL CAPACITY FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION FISCAL DISCIPLINE FISCAL TRANSFERS FOOD SALES GLOBAL POVERTY GOVERNMENT FINANCE GOVERNMENT REVENUES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATIO HEALTH CARE HEALTH OUTCOMES HIGH POVERTY HOLDING INCOME GROWTH INSURANCE INSURANCE MARKETS INVESTMENT RATES LAGGING REGIONS LEVEL PLAYING FIELD LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MARKET INTEGRATION MARKET PRICES MINISTRY OF FINANCE MONETARY FUND NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE PER CAPITA EXPENDITURES PER CAPITA INCOME PERSISTENT POVERTY POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POOR POPULATION POOR REDISTRIBUTION POOR REGIONS POORER REGIONS POVERTY ACROSS COUNTRIES POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY CHANGE POVERTY GAP POVERTY LEVEL POVERTY LINE POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TRAPS PRIVATE INVESTMENT PRO-POOR PROPERTY RIGHTS PROVINCE PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC FINANCE STATISTICS PUBLIC SECTOR REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DISPARITIES REGIONAL LEVEL REVENUE PER CAPITA SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SPENDING SQUARED POVERTY GAP SUBNATIONAL SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS SUBNATIONAL REGIONS TAX TOTAL EXPENDITURE TOTAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES TRANSPARENCY WELFARE PROGRAMS
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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17028

Promoting Shared Prosperity in South Asia

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