Poverty in Timor-Leste 2014

World Bank Group

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: poverty assessment;    poverty measures;    poverty line;    poverty gap;   

RP-ID  :  108735

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

While the Timorese economy has shownsigns of faster growth in recent years, and public spendinghas increased substantially, how the poor have fared throughthis period has remained largely unknown. The successfulconclusion of the third round of the Timor-Leste Survey ofLiving Standards (TLSLS-3) in April 2015 provides anopportunity to update our understanding of poverty and ofmany other economic and social conditions. This reportprovides a detailed assessment of the methodologicalapproaches and headline poverty results from the Timor-LesteSurvey of Living Standards 3. The survey is the third in aseries of mutually comparable, detailed surveys to assess awide range of aspects of living standards in Timor-Leste.This survey is the last in the series. It was conducted overa twelve month period from April 2014 to April 2015. Thisreport focuses on providing key results from the TLSLS-3 anda detailed account of the survey methods.