Armenia : Geographic Distribution of Poverty and Inequality

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Armenia : Geographic Distribution of Poverty and Inequality

2007

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This report is part of the Armenia Programmatic Poverty Assessment work. It is jointly produced by the National Statistics Service (NSS) of the Republic of Armenia and the World Bank. Armenia has achieved impressive economic growth and poverty reduction since the late 1990s. The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown at an astounding annual rate of over 11 percent since 2002. The main objectives of Armenia poverty are: (i) to inform policy making at lower administrative levels by providing poverty and inequality rates at smaller geographic areas than it is currently possible with the available data sources; and (2) to build local capacity to develop and update poverty maps, particularly in the National Statistics Services of the Republic of Armenia (NSSA). The report is helping exploit the strengths of household survey and census population data. The country's GDP the measures of poverty and inequality to understand relative poverty in different geographic regions and communities. The results of poverty mapping do not adequately represent the poverty rates at the community level in rural areas, as most rural communities of Armenia tend to be small. The report focuses on the predictions of welfare at the rayon administration level, it also provide estimates for marzs as well as for the whole country to compare census based predictions with those estimates that are obtained directly from the 2004 Integrated Living Conditions Surveys (ILCS).

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Washington, DC

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Census of population; Urban centers; Private transfers; Policy interventions; Estimates of poverty; Poverty impact; Allocation of resources; Number of adults; Self-employment; Labour markets; Determinants of poverty; Household head; Dissemination; Data sets; National capacity; Anti-poverty; Health facilities; Rural infrastructure; Population census; Geographic poverty traps; Growth elasticity; Per capita expenditure; Local governments; Poverty assessment; Local capacity; Human development; Household welfare; Technical assistance; Labor force; High concentration; Educational attainment; Poverty headcount index; Economic performance; Rural phenomenon; Poverty levels; Number of children; Inequality data; Poverty map; Current poverty; Social assistance; Poverty incidence; Quantitative measures; Reform efforts; Poverty assessments; Dimensions of poverty; Citizens; Programmatic poverty assessment; Employment status; Population data; Food basket; Large population; Remote rural areas; Poverty mapping methodology; Level of education; Correlates of poverty; Poverty rates; National level; Gini coefficient; Farm technologies; Rural differences; Livestock sector; Explanatory variables; Policy makers; Earthquake; Decomposable poverty; Poverty reducing; Rural; Population size; Development policy; Potential users; Family poverty; Household survey; Per ^ capita consumption; Urban community; Pension income; Rural poverty rates; Standard deviation; Consumption aggregate; Headcount poverty; Household level; Reform programs; Poverty maps; Per capita consumption; Livestock development; Poor households; Decline in poverty; Poor person; Poverty programs; Rural households; Non-poor households; Poverty reduction strategies; Household composition; Inequality; National levels; Refugee; Poverty rate; Poverty line; Poverty mapping exercise; Livestock ownership; Poverty reduction efforts; Extreme poverty line; Land size; Consumption expenditures; Welfare measure; Poverty headcount rates; Poor population; Poverty poverty; Poor; Number of women; Poverty reduction programs; Measuring poverty; Poverty measures; Labor markets; Poverty measurement; Error term; Poor people; Poverty severity; Normal distribution; Decomposable poverty measures; High poverty; Descriptive statistics; National poverty; Export markets; Higher incidence of poverty; Livestock population; Food share; Incidence of poverty; Reduction in poverty; Poverty level; Distributional outcomes; Urban communities; Poor communities; Poverty indicators; Economic opportunities; Model specifications; Land quality; Poverty estimates; Covariance matrix; Poverty mapping; Policy implications; Poverty analysis; Number of households; Headcount ratio; Public support

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English

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2007

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