, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed … to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …

financial inclusion in Pune, a large city of India based on a household survey at an identified slum area. Empirical findings of …

We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years … increases in household income and consumption in the long-term emerged from our empirical investigation. Deviating from the … nuanced picture with respect to household consumption impacts. We observe a reduction of food consumption and only find an …