Mongolia made notable strides in reducing poverty from 2010 to 2014, but the pace of poverty reduction slowed significantly after the 2016 economic recession. The trend of declining inequality and inclusive...
Mongolia’s national poverty headcount rate in 2020 was 27.8 percent, 0.6 percentage points lower than in 2018. Between 2014 and 2018, annualized per-capita consumption growth rates were negative both for...
While the distributional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been well-documented in high-income countries, studies in low- and middle-income countries have been relatively rare due to data limitations...
Mongolia’s national poverty headcount rate decreased moderately from 29.6 percent in 2016 to 28.4 percent in 2018. The prolonged Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to cause significant...
The March 2021 update to PovcalNet involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates have been changed for improved harmonization, and the CPI, national...
Strict implementation of social distancing, mobility restrictions, and quarantine measures have helped Mongolia contain the worst health effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, though the country...
Strict implementation of social distancing, mobility restrictions, and quarantine measures have helped Mongolia contain the worst health effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, though the country...
Mongolia’s national poverty headcount rate decreased moderately from 29.6 percent in 2016 to 28.4 percent in 2018. Between 2016 and 2018, poverty reduction was uneven, declining in rural but not in urban...
COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession...
This poverty report, a joint work between NSO and the World Bank, presents the latest poverty and inequality analysis, drawing on the 2018 Household Socio-Economic Survey (HSES). Mongolia's overall poverty...
Indonesia has seen tremendous progress in poverty reduction over the past couple of decades and, as a result, has made a successful transition from low-income to middle-income country status. As millions...
Growth in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) continues to be resilient and in line with previous expectations. Already robust domestic demand has been supported by some pickup in external demand and...