World Bank Document

45. 

While the long-run progress based on official data appears to have been positive, 

poverty reduction has decelerated somewhat in recent years despite continued GDP growth.  

This could be a result of several factors such as the type of growth or where economic progress is 

occurring.  It could also indicate that recent episodes of growth may be bypassing some isolated 

yet vulnerable groups of the population or parts of the country.  In order to understand the change 

in the trend, the Bank would need access to household data to assess the impact of growth on 

various groups of population.