. Developments in the cocoa sector can have significant implications for poverty reduction and shared prosperity given that the … policy reform on household welfare and poverty. This paper uses a nonparametric approach to policy incidence analysis to … in poverty induced by the policy are compared to a benchmark case. While increasing the cocoa farm-gate price has a …

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 …

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 …

International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes to adjust … implications for estimated poverty trends. The results suggest that in 11 of 16 Sub-Saharan African countries in this study …, poverty reduction may be understated because of consumer price index bias. With correction of consumer price index bias …