This report examines Armenia’s experience in reducing poverty and raising the welfare of the least well-off in the country in the years since 2009. What households spend on consumption is an indicator of their welfare. As the economy recovered from crisis, the least well-off enjoyed some growth in consumption spending, but not as much as in the years up to 2009. Moreover, growth has become less pro-poor in relative terms because the less well-off...
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2015/06/01
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Poverty Assessment
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2016/01/29
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Armenia poverty assessment : how the crisis changed the pace of poverty reduction and shared prosperity
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average per capita consumption
Citation
Sinha,Nistha; Meyer,Moritz; Tsirunyan,Sasun A..
Armenia poverty assessment : how the crisis changed the pace of poverty reduction and shared prosperity (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/621401467999736871