interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …

health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …

particular, poverty reduction was slower in low-income DMCs than the others under both the $1.25 and $2 per day poverty lines …Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005-2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing …

Using the case of Zambia, this paper examines whether structural change translates into reduced poverty and improved …

expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the …

Standard microeconomic methods consistently suggest that, in the short run, higher food prices increase poverty in … systematically test the relationship between changes in domestic food prices and changes in poverty. We find robust evidence that in … the long run (one to five years) higher food prices reduce poverty and inequality. The magnitudes of these effects vary …

Knowledge of actual poverty prevalence is important for any society concerned with improving public welfare and … reducing poverty. In this paper, we calculate and compare the poverty incidence rate in China using four nationally … Household Finance Survey (CHFS) of 2011, and the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) of 2007. …