As a brief follow-up to Shanta's post on the economic policy workshop in South Sudan, here is the World Bank's recent poverty profile for the soon-to-be-country. I've worked closely with the Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Statistics and Evaluation, which collected the data underlying the poverty profile. For more data on South Sudan, see the Centre's Fast Facts publication and their 2010 Statistical Yearbook. Finally, here are videos of the presentation Shanta and Lant Pritchett made at the Juba workshop:
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