, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred …

Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived … advantage of assistance? We explore this potential trade-off in the context of an NGO cash transfer program in Kenya, utilizing … ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty …

How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … in Kenya. The workshop substantially raises aspirations, investment, and living standards. But the workshop+cash produces … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

This paper investigates the impacts of macroeconomic activity and policy on the poverty population. It is shown that … both the poverty count and the income share of the lowest quintile of income recipients move significantly with the … structure. Special attention is given to changes in the poverty rate over the past decade and to prospective changes in the …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …