Poverty in Iraq, 2012-2014

World Bank

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: poverty rates;    household surveys;    poverty line;   

RP-ID  :  106991

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This note describes the methodology usedfor estimating trends in poverty rates for Iraq using the2012 Iraq household socio-economic survey and the 2014continuous household survey; and presents the finding. The2014 survey was designed to provide comparable and morefrequent estimates of poverty, but fieldwork was disruptedin the second half of 2014 due to a deteriorating securitysituation. The methodology described in this note implementsadjustments to weights and re-estimates the poverty line toestablish poverty trends between the first half of 2012 andthe first half of 2014 for all 18 governorates of Iraq;between 2012 and 2014 for these 13 governorates. The firstset of estimates show that the pace of poverty reduction inIraq was accelerating until the first half of 2014, whilethe second and third set of estimates quantify the adverseimpact of the 2014 crisis on welfare in 13 governorates of Iraq.