Publication: Poverty and Equity Assessment for El Salvador 2024: Improving Lives and Livelihoods
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2024-12-12
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2024-12-12
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This report proposes an agenda for building on gains to re-accelerate poverty reduction among Salvadorans. The last World Bank Poverty Assessment for El Salvador, from 2015, proposed two key policy recommendations: (a) effective pro-poor spending and (b) reduction of crime and violence through better access to jobs and education. Nine years later, the authorities have managed to achieve a substantial reduction in crime and violence and have indicated an intent to build on such progress to establish a path toward an El Salvador where shared prosperity is achievable. In this report, we propose a three pillar structure to address poverty and inequality reduction: jobs, services, and social protection, with a cross-cutting set of primary conditions that articulates this structure.
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“World Bank. 2024. Poverty and Equity Assessment for El Salvador 2024: Improving Lives and Livelihoods. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42533 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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