Poverty monitoring in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is complicated by irregular data collection. According to the latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), conducted in 2013—2014...
It is very difficult to analyze poverty trends in Kiribati due to the infrequency of data collection. The most recent Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) was conducted more than 10 years ago...
Like many countries in the Pacific region, the Solomon Islands suffers from infrequent collection of data and a lack of comparability between rounds. Using the international poverty line of USD 1.90 (2011...
At the time of the 2010 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), the incidence of poverty in Vanuatu was measured at 39.5 percent and 13.2 percent, using the lower middle income class poverty line...
Solomon Islands is a small, remote archipelago in the South Pacific that faces a fairly unique set of development challenges. Solomon Islands is now at a critical juncture in its development trajectory...
The last Household and Income Expenditure Survey (HIES) was conducted in Papua New Guinea in 2009—2010, with the previous round conducted in 1996. Poverty, as measured by the international lower middle...
Using the 2011 Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) USD 3.20 per person per day international poverty line for lower middle income countries, poverty in Tonga was 8.9 percent at the time of the 2009 Household...
This poverty and equity brief explains about the latest available Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data for Tuvalu are from 2010. Using the upper middle income class poverty line, the lower...
This poverty and equity brief explains about Poverty rates in Fiji are among the lowest in the Pacific. Estimates suggest that less than 2 percent of the population wed in extreme poverty in 2013-14 using...
This report records the presentation of Tongo poverty conference which covered the methods of poverty and monetary measures to calculate the standard of welfare of the country.
This report presents the poverty profile of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) based on the 2013-2014 Household income and expenditure survey (HIES) conducted by the government of the Federated States...
Solomon Islands is a small, remote archipelago in the South Pacific that faces a fairly unique set of development challenges. Solomon Islands is now at a critical juncture in its development trajectory...
This report provides a detailed assessment of the methodological approaches and headline poverty results from the Timor-Leste survey of living standards 3 (TLSLS-3). The survey is the third in a series...
The 2012-2013 poverty profile of the Solomon Islands presented in this report is based on the 2012-13 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) conducted by the Solomon Islands National Statistics...