Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

at which households come out of poverty affects their asset purchase decisions …

Poverty reduction programs modeled on BRAC's graduation approach build up both tangible productive assets and …

build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of …

Why are people living in poverty disproportionately affected by mental illness? We review the interdisciplinary … evidence of the bi-directional causal relationship between poverty and common mental illnesses -- depression and anxiety -- and … psychological interventions generate economic gains. Similarly, negative economic shocks cause mental illness, and anti-poverty …

We document how an anti-poverty program improves economic and subjective wellbeing, and self-sufficiency. Familias en …

In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …

performance on a large number of tests. Second, we use a regression discontinuity design exploiting the fact that a "poverty index … completion rate of 75 percent. We conclude that any effect of cash transfers on the inter-generational transmission of poverty in …