the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative data, comparable across these countries … same time, we also observe clear differences between the countries. We find that, overall, effects are positive in Mali …, somewhat mixed in Togo (with positive effects in 2nd and negative effects in 5th grade) and negative in Niger. This ordering is …

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 …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …