This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA … variation in program enrollment across voting booths. We find that FA has a positive effect on political participation in the … mechanisms, as the laws recently passed by the Colombian government, that avoid successful anti-poverty schemes from being …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade …-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions … announcements, we measure the differential time variation in work mobility between high and low-poverty regions. We find that the …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits … cross-country poverty convergence using data from the same sources but an extended period, i.e. 1977-2014. We find that …

Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

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