The purpose of this poverty assessment is to shine a new light on poverty, inequality, and its drivers in Costa Rica …

analyze 11 years of nationally-representative cross-sectional data in a new way: using a cohort panel approach developed by … Deaton in his 1985 paper (Deaton 1985). We construct a panel of 19 cohorts spanning birth years 1980 to 1998 and estimate …

Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Owing to its low-lying topography, dense river …

at Columbia University and World Bank's Global Crisis Risk Platform (GCRP) - details methodological steps to analyze …

policy principles and examples to inform the broader debate on reducing poverty and inequality across Colombia …

, South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. Inequality is high, persistent, and has increased since 1994 …This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid … reversed between 2011 and 2015, threatening to erode some of the gains made since 1994. High levels of inequality and low …