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 quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The …, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to … poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to salaried nonfarm workers and higher …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

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 …

This paper describes the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty, and examines recent policy changes and … reduce poverty, especially for families with children and retirees. Beginning in the second decile, households are net payers … of lower value-added taxes on electricity and utility bills is expected to be slightly poverty reducing, this effect is …