This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …

; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and …I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

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 …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion … transportation costs can result in up to a 40% reduction in the measured poverty rate among remote-working households. …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …