Social Safety Nets in Iraq : Reform in a Time of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
Iraq, once a relatively skilled and economically prosperous society, has seen its development thwarted by decades of conflict and economic decline. Today it is an upper middle-income, resource-rich, yet fragile and conflict-riven country. Progress...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/123131478838198082/Social-safety-nets-in-Iraq-reform-in-a-time-of-fragility-conflict-and-violence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25342 |
| Summary: | Iraq, once a relatively skilled and
economically prosperous society, has seen its development
thwarted by decades of conflict and economic decline. Today
it is an upper middle-income, resource-rich, yet fragile and
conflict-riven country. Progress on the twin goals of ending
extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity is inevitably
an uphill struggle in such a context. Indeed, there has been
no overall movement towards either poverty reduction or
reduced income equality in Iraq since 2007; headcount
poverty measured in 2014 has remained virtually unchanged at
22.5 percent. What limited gains in poverty reduction were
achieved through 2012 had been reversed by 2014, as a result
of a resurgence in violence and the worsening of the
economic environment. More than four million Iraqis have
been displaced by the country’s various conflicts. |
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