WB: TJ path to sustainable prosperity

The report states that this is a World Bank Blogs article titled “Tajikistan’s Path to Sustainable Prosperity: Building Inclusive Growth at Home”, which examines both the opportunities and challenges of turning Tajikistan’s rapid growth into sustained, inclusive prosperity. The report states that around 1.3 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty globally since 1990, but about 831 million people — nearly one in ten — still live in extreme poverty today on less than $3.00 per person a day. The captured PDF is partially obscured by a World Bank 2030 Strategic Priorities modal overlay, but the visible narrative identifies agriculture (a quarter of GDP) as continuing to absorb excess labour without lifting productivity. The report states that while the middle class has expanded across the country, its presence remains less pronounced in rural areas, whereas more diversified urban centres such as Dushanbe and Sughd have seen faster middle-class growth. The report states that geography and gender compound inequality: for every 500 metres of elevation, household outcomes worsen, and women’s labour-force participation lags men’s by a wide margin. Under “The way forward: building opportunity at home”, the report states that Tajikistan’s Targeted Social Assistance programme for low-income families reaches only about 15 percent of households, and expanding the TSA’s coverage and improving its targeting accuracy would help more low-income families cope with shocks and avoid falling back into poverty.