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This report is part of the Armenia
Programmatic Poverty Assessment work. It is jointly produced
by the National Statistics Service (NSS) of the Republic of
Armenia and the World Bank. Armenia has achieved impressive
economic growth and poverty reduction since the late 1990s.
The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown at
an astounding annual rate of over 11 percent since 2002. The
main objectives of Armenia poverty are: (i) to inform policy
making at lower administrative levels by providing poverty
and inequality rates at smaller geographic areas than it is
currently possible with the available data sources; and (2)
to build local capacity to develop and update poverty maps,
particularly in the National Statistics Services of the
Republic of Armenia (NSSA). The report is helping exploit
the strengths of household survey and census population
data. The country's GDP the measures of poverty and
inequality to understand relative poverty in different
geographic regions and communities. The results of poverty
mapping do not adequately represent the poverty rates at the
community level in rural areas, as most rural communities of
Armenia tend to be small. The report focuses on the
predictions of welfare at the rayon administration level, it
also provide estimates for marzs as well as for the whole
country to compare census based predictions with those
estimates that are obtained directly from the 2004
Integrated Living Conditions Surveys (ILCS).
