No Poverty

In 2024, Governments in the Arab region made significant efforts to improve social protection. The relative decrease in the number of observed reforms does not imply that Governments’ commitment to social protection has diminished.

Across all areas of social statistics as well as some areas of economic statistics there is a widespread and rapid trend towards the use of administrative sources, either to complement traditional census and survey sources, or to replace them. There are many advantages to this overall trend, including reduced respondent burden, faster production of statistics, and the concomitant reduced costs. There are also well-known drawbacks, such as a dependence on the content of administrative sources and the challenges in gathering data on subjective characteristics or other variables that are not recorded in administrative sources.

A multi-layered, partially automated methodology was adopted to collect, screen and categorize social protection developments identified in the Arab region between December 2023 and November 2024.

The climate crisis is fundamentally changing global poverty.