The purpose of the visit was to review key actions and determine the next steps for the project, which aims to strengthen rural services delivery and local development in the province, including the Merged Areas.
While India has reduced extreme poverty significantly – from 22.5 percent in 2011 to 10.2 percent in 2019 - the number of its ultra-poor remains larger than the total populations of Vietnam, Thailand or Germany. https://t.co/wR7lrPW1bz via @worldbank
In conversation with John Paul from The/Nudge CRD, R. Subrahmanyam, R. Jaya, Nita Kejrewal, Anna O’Donnell & Kunal Sharma got together to ask the difficult questions about addressing ultra-poverty in India that often get left behind in matters of policy & practice.
Women in Leadership Series: Opportunities and challenges to breaking the glass ceiling – experiences from women leaders in Indonesia. https://t.co/7jlzfMLKYC via @WorldBank
How can #India design strategic, multi-sectoral & more targeted programs that reach ultra-poor #women in #rural India? Examples from #Bangladesh’s #BRAC, Africa’s #BOMA project, & India’s #Jeevika show why a different, more intensive strategy may be needed:https://t.co/jhMfm1dPLk
Quite simply, there is no path to achieving our climate goals without contributions from local communities and the carbon stored on their lands. https://t.co/Wp66BTu53j via @worldbank
Looking ahead, closing gender gaps further is not only the right thing to do by women – it is a good policy to boost Indonesia’s economic recovery. https://t.co/T6lRYVtczP via @WB_AsiaPacific
Something like a tenth of the people who live in the South and the Southwest — from South Carolina to Southern California — will decide to move north in search of better economy and environment.
Those who stay will be disproportionately poor and elderly. https://t.co/n662dnqJR5
Decision Desk HQ projects that @JoeBiden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes for a total of 273.
Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America.
Race called at 11-06 08:50 AM EST
All Results: https://t.co/BgcQsEyt3j
Vivi Alatas @vvalatas argues for strengthening community targeting in combination for proxy means test method (using national survey data), taking full advantage of verification data e.g., BPJS, tax, PBB, spatial and visual data.