WB to study living standards in Azerbaijan

The World Bank launched new monitoring of roughly 7,000 households in Azerbaijan to study living standards and social assistance programs, the Labor and Social Security Ministry reported.

The ministry recently held a meeting with Labor Minister Fizuli Alakbarov.

Following the meeting, Alakbarov gave instructions to speed up work to prepare to execute a self-help project throughout the country in 2011.

He was also tasked with increasing attention to the social rehabilitation of underaged children, provide the necessary support for the WB new monitoring and informing the public about ongoing activities.

The project is being realized within the framework of the state program on the target social aid government program.

The first pilot project was launched in the Vahidli village, which has 325 households and a population of 1,150 people.

Such projects will be carried out in Masalli, Ismayilli and Guba in 2011.


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