Confronting Poverty in Iraq : Main Findings
This book provides the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of Iraqi living standards to be carried out in several decades. It makes extensive use of the Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey (IHSES), the first nationwide income and expenditure...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20110107004719 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2253 |
| Summary: | This book provides the most
comprehensive and rigorous analysis of Iraqi living
standards to be carried out in several decades. It makes
extensive use of the Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey
(IHSES), the first nationwide income and expenditure survey
since 1988. IHSES data were complemented with a wide range
of other sources, providing a holistic perspective on living
standards that was previously unavailable. The analysis
presented here was carried out with two main goals, first,
to inform the Government's poverty reduction strategy;
and second, to create a baseline against which future
progress in poverty reduction can be monitored and assessed.
Iraq is moving forward. The challenge requires
re-development and recovery of what has been lost, including
the stimulus provided by economic opportunity. A transition
in policy is needed from provision of minimal food
subsistence to long-term investments in human productivity.
An environment more conducive to the poor can be created by
investments that help citizens to benefit from their own
labor and education. This challenge is being concretely
addressed in the newly adopted national Poverty Reduction
Strategy. That strategy, informed by the present analysis,
articulates clear priorities for government spending and
detailed programmatic actions. |
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