This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare … vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent … recession did not result in a substantial increase in absolute poverty by the official definition, it led to a considerable …

This note provides an update of recent poverty and shared prosperity dynamics, and some of the underlying drivers, as … well as introducing the new international poverty thresholds that are currently in use. The purpose of the update is to … take advantage of the release of Household Budget Survey (HBS) data for the 2016 survey round. The previous poverty and …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

This paper has the goal of presenting the first comprehensive update of poverty, inequality and shared prosperity … trends - and key drivers of these trends - since 2003 until 2015, that is starting with the end of the most recent poverty … aims to present some emerging challenges to continued poverty reduction and inclusive growth in the near future. Relying on …

Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its … sources, some of which have rarely been used. The study finds that Vietnam has significantly increased school enrollment at …

latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues … attendance on women's labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

examines the impacts-half a century later-of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …