Nepal Poverty Assessment, July 2006

The World Bank has been providing technical assistance to the Government of Nepal for strengthening its poverty monitoring and statistical systems. In the course of the collaborative work on the Nepal Poverty Assessment the World Bank team conducted numerous training sessions at the CBS, and CBS staff attended training sessions in India, Thailand, and Washington, DC. Building on the long-standing engagement between the World Bank and the CBS in the area of household survey data collection and analysis, the Bank and the CBS jointly carried out much of the analysis in the Poverty Assessment report. The report titled ?Resilience amidst Conflict: an Assessment of Poverty in Nepal, 1995-96 and 2003-04? will be released to the public in July 2006.