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.
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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.