characteristics, parental background, and village characteristics. Therefore policies that reduce household poverty are likely to …

extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames …

Progresa social assistance program in rural Mexico. We exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames of household … the same family network in terms of their poverty, and how this differs within and between generations of the extended …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

, matters for well-being: it enters with a positive and significant coefficient in the well-being function. -- poverty ; well …

of reducing concentration in two markets in Mexico that are known for their high level of concentration: mobile … points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient. …

trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …

important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial … poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational …