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Tonga - Poverty and Equity Assessment 2024: Navigating Turbulent Waves Toward Sustained Poverty Reduction

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-10T18:17:39Z
dc.date.available2024-10-10T18:17:39Z
dc.date.issued2024-10-10
dc.description.abstractTonga’s economic growth, historically weak due to structural factors facing many Pacific Island countries, has been particularly sluggish in recent years due to several large shocks. Tropical cyclones in 2018 and 2020, border restrictions and surging inflation due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HT-HH) volcanic eruption all have battered the population and have potentially reversed previous welfare gains. This World Bank Poverty and Equity Assessment (PEA) report aims to fill critical knowledge gaps regarding the extent, nature, and drivers of poverty and inequality in Tonga. The report extensively utilizes the 2021 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) in Tonga and the official monetary poverty estimate from the survey. The 2021 HIES is the first survey containing significant welfare information that was entirely fielded after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and can more fully illustrate some of the pandemic’s impacts. To estimate the change in monetary poverty, the report utilizes the 2015/16 HIES to impute the monetary poverty estimate in that year given that the government did not report an official monetary poverty estimate from the survey. In addition to identifying poverty and inequality patterns, this report highlights several thematic topics to which information from the HIES can contribute and inform the ongoing policy dialog. These topics include vulnerability of the population to shocks, human capital development, and social protection systems.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099100324024520068/P501030127f85b0391b6d714553b4f5d0e6
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/42237
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42237
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION AND GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectNO POVERTY
dc.subjectSDG 1
dc.subjectZERO HUNGER
dc.subjectSDG 2
dc.subjectDECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectSDG 8
dc.titleTonga - Poverty and Equity Assessment 2024en
dc.title.subtitleNavigating Turbulent Waves Toward Sustained Poverty Reductionen
dc.typeReport
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okr.crossref.titleTonga - Poverty and Equity Assessment 2024: Navigating Turbulent Waves Toward Sustained Poverty Reduction
okr.date.disclosure2024-10-10
okr.date.lastmodified2024-10-10T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Poverty Assessment
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099100324024520068/P501030127f85b0391b6d714553b4f5d0e6
okr.guid099100324024520068
okr.identifier.docmidP501030-27f85bc1-f24c-4439-b6d7-4553b4f5d0e6
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/42237
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34399270
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34399270
okr.identifier.report193849
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099100324024520068/pdf/P501030127f85b0391b6d714553b4f5d0e6.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryTonga
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Monitoring & Analysis
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.unitEFI-EAP-POV-Poverty and Equity (EEAPV)
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