Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …