Vulnerable populations, for the purposes of social policy, are those who have made it out of poverty but do not enjoy economic security like the middle class does. They live on an average 4 to 10 dollars a day and risk being clawed back under the poverty line by economic turmoil, recession or volatility. (…)
To that end the World Bank will be reducing its highway maintenance budget and income support for the poor and redirecting it towards generating youth-employment programs and backing the private sector, specifically directing its financing towards low-income geographic areas, namely the country’s north.