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Last updated: January 31, 2023
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Nandini Krishnan is a Senior Economist with the Poverty and Equity Global Practice. She leads the GP’s program in Afghanistan, and its analytical program on Cox’s Bazar/Rohingya influx in Bangladesh. She has worked on many fragile and conflict affected states (including Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian territories), and co-led analytical programs focusing on refugee hosting situations. She has supported impact evaluations of large-scale projects and programs in Tanzania, Nigeria, and South Africa, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University.
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    Where are Iraq’s Poor?: Mapping Poverty in Iraq
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015-06-23) Vishwanath, Tara; Krishnan, Nandini
    Measuring poverty and tracking it over time is an important prerequisite to national economic planning. Absence of official data on household expenditure or poverty line hampered the ability of Iraqi policymakers to understand the extent of the problem, analyze their causes, and devise appropriate policies. Iraq household socioeconomic survey (IHSES) 2006-07 was the first survey of its kind since 1988 to cover all 18 governorates. The survey collected rich information on income, expenditure, employment, housing, education, health, and other socioeconomic indicators. Building on the experience of the first IHSES survey and using international best practice on sampling and questionnaire design and survey implementation, the second round of IHSES was fielded in 201-/13. To fill the data gap, a larger survey was designed to collect information on correlates of household welfare like demographic characteristics, education, occupation, housing, and assets and estimate small-area poverty rates using projection methods. This report presents results from the exercise, the first of its kind for Iraq. Poverty mapping not only provides a visual representation of poverty at subnational levels, it also reveals pockets of poverty and islands of prosperity where they exist. This knowledge is useful to inform decisions on policy design and targeting of development projects and programs.
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    Seeing is Believing: Poverty in the Palestinian Territories
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014-06) Vishwanath, Tara; Calandra, Faythe; Krishnan, Nandini; Yoshida, Nobuo
    The Palestinian Territories have a uniquely fragmented geography, characterized by the isolation of Gaza from the rest of the world, and the man-made barriers to mobility within the West Bank. The internal mobility restrictions imposed by Israel, unique to the West Bank, play an important role in explaining spatial variations in outcomes within the West Bank. This is strikingly analogous to the role of Gaza s external barriers in explaining the divergence between the West Bank and Gaza. These have consequences for poverty and economic development. Detailed analysis using a series of labor force and household surveys were undertaken as part of the West Bank and Gaza Poverty and Inclusion Assessment, Coping with Conflict? The analysis shows that over the last decade, internal and external barriers have been associated with tremendous constraints to growth and investment, which is evident in high rates of unemployment, especially in Gaza and among women and youth.