In Ukraine, moderate poverty (according to the international measure of consumption per capita below dollar 5.50 per day in 2011 PPP) has started to decline, reaching an estimated 6.4 percent in 2016...
Real GDP growth is expected to increase by 3.8 percent in 2018 compared to the 4.6 percent average growth in the last decade. The pace of growth will remain subdued in the coming years in the face of weaker...
2018 GDP growth accelerated to 3.3 percent, but macroeconomic vulnerabilities remain. Growth was supported by a record harvest, services, and favorable domestic demand conditions. Consumption continued...
This poverty and equity brief explains about the progress of Belarus in reducing poverty as of April 2019. The economic contraction in 2015 and 2016 led to an uptick in poverty from 0.4 percent in 2014...
This country poverty brief explains about the progress of Moldova in reducing poverty as of April 2019. The upper middle-income poverty rate decreased to 16.3 percent in 2015 from 18.4 in 2014 and stayed...
The recovery continued in 2018, driven by favorable external conditions and domestic demand. The inflation targeting framework kept consumer price inflation low, while lower real interest rates stimulated...
Economic growth is expected to pick up to 3.3 percent in 2018, but vulnerabilities are considerable. Ukraine needs 7.7 percent of GDP per year in 2019 and 2020 to repay public debt and cover the fiscal...
A rebound of domestic demand and improved exports, supported by recovery of Russia’s economy and higher oil prices, helped to accelerate growth during 2018. GDP is expected to grow by 3.8 percent in 2018...
This country poverty brief explains about the progress of Moldova in reducing poverty as of October 2018. The upper middle-income poverty rate decreased from 16.3 percent in 2015 to 16.5 percent in 2016...
In Ukraine, moderate poverty (according to the international measure of consumption per capita below dollar 5.50 per day in 2011 PPP) has started to decline, reaching an estimated 6.4 percent in 2016...
The economy is expected to continue to grow by 4 percent on average in 2018 - 2020 supported by remittances and real wage growth induced private consumption. Monetary and fiscal policies are expected to...
This poverty and equity brief explains about the progress of Belarus in reducing poverty as of October 2018. The economic contraction in 2015 and 2016 led to an uptick in poverty from 0.4 percent in 2014...
This note provides an update of recent poverty and shared prosperity dynamics, and some of the underlying drivers, as well as introducing the new international poverty thresholds that are currently in...
This note provides an update of recent poverty and shared prosperity dynamics, and some of the underlying drivers, as well as introducing the new international poverty thresholds that are currently in...
This poverty and equity brief explains about the progress of Belarus in reducing poverty as of April 2018. The economic contraction in 2015 and 2016 led to an uptick in poverty from 0.4 percent in 2014...
In Ukraine, moderate poverty (according to the international measure of consumption per capita below dollar 5.50 per day in 2011 PPP) has started to decline, reaching an estimated 6.4 percent in 2016...
In Ukraine, moderate poverty (according to the international measure of consumption per capita below 5.5 USD/day in 2011 PPP) has started to decline, reaching an estimated 6.9 percent in 2016. This follows...
This country poverty brief explains about the Belarus progress in reducing poverty as of October 2017. In Belarus poverty at the upper income threshold has been declining in recent years from seventeen...
This country poverty brief explains about the progress of Moldova in reducing poverty as of October 2017. The poverty headcount based on both national and international definitions decreased in Moldova...
Economic growth translated into higher levels of consumption for all parts of the welfare distribution and lower poverty. Consumption growth for the bottom 40 was lower than for the total of the population...