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 …

substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping … households showing a significant probability of falling into poverty (risk-induced vulnerability). As an application of the … of chronically poor households (poverty-induced vulnerability) - the focus of traditional poverty maps - and the share of …

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter … households are able to smooth consumption during periods of shocks and maintain their investments in human capital. Results on …