POVERTY
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Social Protection in the Syrian Arab Republic E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/TP.12 This country profile outlines the statutory social protection system in the Syrian Arab Republic including social insurance, social assistance, and social health-care provision. It furthermore... |
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Arab Sustainable Development Report 2020 E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/2 Achieving sustainable development in the Arab region faces structural barriers that are often shared among the 22 Arab countries, despite variations in income level, natural resources, and... |
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Arab Society: Demographic and Social trends Issue No. 14 E/ESCWA/SD/2019/5 Arab Society: A Compendium of Demographic and Social Statistics, Issue No. 14 is the latest in a series of biennial compendia of the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission... |
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Wealth distribution and poverty impact of COVID-19 in Lebanon E/ESCWA/CL3.SEP/2020/TP.8 Lebanon is de facto experiencing the impact of three reinforcing growth shocks: a long-term recession post-Syrian crisis as a result of gradual decline in tourism receipts and private investment... |
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Wealth Inequality and Closing the Poverty Gap in Arab Countries: The Case for a Solidarity Wealth Tax E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2020/TP.9 High poverty rates coupled with high concentration of wealth in the Arab region have highlighted the need for a stronger civic solidarity and the shared responsibility of the public, the... |
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Impact of COVID-19 on Money Metric Poverty in Arab Countries E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2020/TP.10 Regardless of how it is measured, poverty in Arab countries was on the rise before COVID-19. Thus, the current pandemic only further exposes and accentuates existing structural deficiencies... |
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Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19: Policy Briefs E/ESCWA/2020/INF.1 A decade marked for accelerated action and delivery towards sustainable development has... |
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Social Protection Reform in Arab Countries E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/1 Social protection systems, their design and their extent, are shaping social cohesion, social justice, the structure of the labour market, the prevention and alleviation of poverty, as well as... |
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Arab Society: A Compendium of Demographic and Social Statistics, No. 13 E/ESCWA/SD/2017/5 Arab Society: A Compendium of Social Statistics, Issue No. 13 is the latest in a series of biennial compendiums of the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia... |
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Multidimensional Poverty Profile: Jordan E/ESCWA/EDID/2018/WP.5 The paper provides in-depth analysis of the prevalence, distribution (geographical and by gender, among other household socio-economic characteristics), and severity of multidimensional poverty... |
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Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report E/ESCWA/EDID/2017/2 The Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report, the first of its kind following the launch of the 2030 Agenda, is the result of three years of collaboration between the League of Arab States’... |
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Arab Society: A Compendium of Social Statistics: Issue No. 12 E/ESCWA/SD/2015/4 Issued biennually, the Compendium of Social Statistics provides a general view of Arab societies and the changes they encounter over time. This issue features data on population, households,... |
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Arab Development Outlook: Vision 2030 E/ESCWA/EDID/2015/3 The Arab region is in crisis and it is easy to succumb to pessimism about its future. This report, however, embraces a vision of hope: one that illustrates the... |
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Economic Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Developing Economies: A focus on Arab Region E/ESCWA/OES/2015/WP.4 The study examines the nexus between economic growth processes, employment, poverty and inequality in the developing economies, and the Arab countries in particular, during the period 1990-2013.... |
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The Arab Consolidated Report on Progress Achieved in the implementation of the BPFA: Beijing +20 E/ESCWA/ECW/2015/Technical Paper.1 The report reviews progress achieved in the Arab region in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, twenty years after their adoption at the Fourth World Conference... |
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Towards Better Measurement of Poverty and Inequality in Arab Countries: A Proposed Pan-Arab Multipurpose Survey E/ESCWA/SD/2014/WP.1 This paper critically assesses the measurement methods of poverty and inequality indicators based on international and national methodologies as well as the data generation mechanisms across Arab... |
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ESCWA Country Brief - 2013 E/ESCWA/SDD/2013/Technical Paper.7 This set of country briefs presents the socioeconomic, political and developmental challenges facing three countries in transition, namely Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. It reviews the causes of... |
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Social justice and participation: Policy brief E/ESCWA/SDD/2013/Technical Paper.12 This brief lays out the definition and principles of social justice and discusses relevant global examples of effective mechanisms and tools to achieve a just society, based on the premise that... |
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Migration and the post-2015 development agenda - Policy brief 19 E/ESCWA/SDD/2013/Technical Paper.11 This policy brief summarizes the record on references to migration in development agendas pursued by the United Nations, before going on to examine how the various processes and actors involved in... |
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Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region 2012-2013 E/ESCWA/EDGD/2013/3 Arab countries exhibited increasing polarization in their development paths in 2012 and 2013. Major energy exporters, namely Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, are recovering from the... |
