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 …

comprehensive database of surveys from 45 of 48 SSA countries to examine the effects of the project fall in growth on poverty in the … region. An additional 26 million people in SSA, and as much as 58 million, may fall into extreme poverty defined by the … international poverty line of 1.90 US Dollars per day in 2011 PPP. The poverty rate for SSA will likely increase more than two …

child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356 million) younger than 18 years lived … on less than 1.90 Dollars PPP per day, as opposed to 7.9 percent of adults ages 18 and above. The poverty rate of … extreme poverty declined by approximately 29 million between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for two …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …