eBook

Poverty and the policy response to the economic crisis in Liberia

World Bank, Wodon, Quentin

2012,2011

Overview

Contents: Poverty and the response to the economic crisis in Liberia. brief overview -- Poverty and human development diagnostic -- Poverty in Liberia. level, profile and determinants -- Education in Liberia. basic diagnostic using the 2007 CWIQ survey -- Health in Liberia. basic diagnostic using the 2007 CWIQ survey -- Impact of higher food prices and fiscal measures taken to respond to the crisis -- Rice prices and poverty in Liberia -- Benefit incidence of fiscal measures to deal with the impact on households of the economic crisis in Liberia. comparing import and income taxes -- Evaluation of the cash for work temporary employment program -- Ex ante assessment of the potential impact of labor intensive public works in Liberia -- Liberia's cash for work temporary employment project. responding to crisis in low income, fragile countries -- Impact of labor intensive public works in Liberia. results from a light evaluation survey -- List of tables, figures, and boxes.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: 21st century / administrative costs / aggregate poverty / annual growth / Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahme / Armut / average % growth / Bildung / cash transfers / Central region / conflict / consumer prices / consumption aggregate / consumption basket / consumption data / consumption per capita / correlates of poverty / data quality / determinants of poverty / Development Goals / development strategy / distributional impact / Economic conditions / Economic crisis / economic development / economic growth / Economic impact analysis / Education level / Emergency Employment / EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM / Employment Programs / estimates of poverty / Extreme poverty / female-headed households / Financial Crisis / food basket / food consumption / food expenditure / food goods / food items / food needs / food poverty / food poverty line / Food Price / FOOD PRICES / food products / Food Security / Gesundheitsversorgung / Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 / Government policy / growth rate / growth rates / health care / health expenditures / household composition / household consumption / household head / household heads / household income / household needs / household size / household survey / household surveys / housing / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / Impact on Poverty / incidence analysis / Income / income data / Indicators of Poverty / inequality / Kosten / land size / Liberia / Liberia -- Economic conditions -- 21st century / Low income / macroeconomic framework / Marginal tax / Marginal tax rate / Mean value / measuring poverty / medium term / milk / Nahrungsmittel / national accounts / National Poverty / National Poverty headcount / negative impact / net income / Nutrition / policy interventions / poor / poor areas / post-conflict countries / Poverty / Poverty -- Government policy -- Liberia / poverty analysis / poverty assessments / Poverty Comparisons / poverty data / Poverty Estimates / poverty gap / Poverty Impact / poverty level / poverty line / Poverty lines / poverty measure / poverty measurement / poverty measures / Poverty Profile / Poverty rates / Poverty Reduction / Poverty Reduction Strategy / Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper / poverty threshold / Prices / Pro-Poor / Pro-Poor Growth / public sector / Public Spending / Public Works / qualitative data / reduction of poverty / Rice / rural / rural areas / Rural Region / Safety Net / savings / schooling / secondary schooling / Social conditions / squared poverty gap / standard deviation / Surveys / targeting / total poverty / total poverty line / unequal distribution / urban areas / Urban Region / wage rates / war / Welfare Indicator / Welfare Indicators
• ISBN: 9780821389799, 0821389793, 9780821389478, 0821389475