that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …

question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates to … countries which export a larger proportion of low-skilled migrants. It also finds that the level of poverty in a labor …

poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by … country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases …