India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also … accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality. We report on a research … project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts …

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 …