This report examines poverty trends and distribution of the poor in this larger context, paying particular attention to … the most recent past. The report contributes to our understanding of the progress made in combating poverty in three ways …. First, it updates our knowledge of poverty outcomes by examining the trends in poverty and vulnerability, as well as the …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … refugees in Chad, combining survey and administrative data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The …

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

This poverty assessment for Romania covers the period from 1995 to 2002, since the last World Bank poverty analysis … reviewed the evolution of poverty from 1989 to 1994, the early years of transition from a socialist to a market economy. This … assessment's objective is to understand how poverty has evolved and how economic growth and social protection programs, 10 …

This report relies on several data sources. The main source providing the poverty, inequality and labor figures herein …'s sample was drawn from the 2017 Census and allows for poverty figures to be representative at national and provincial as well … abundant post-harvest periods. The starting point for the analysis is chapter 1, which synthesizes progress in reducing poverty …

This paper is one of three country studies of successful anti-poverty measures during upper middle-income levels, the … other two being Japan and the Republic of Korea. Though the US did not advance an explicit anti-poverty agenda until the … earnings all increased during 1920-1960. Poverty fell by two-thirds to around 22 percent as the mean income rose and income …

The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …