Climate change is believed to represent a serious challenge to poverty reduction efforts around the globe. This paper … conducts an up-to-date review of three main strands of the literature analyzing the poverty impacts of climate change : (i … affect the path of poverty over the next decades; (ii) studies focusing on the poverty impacts of climate change in the …

to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …

The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression …-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from … Poverty Scorecard is as good as any of the regression-based estimators. The findings change, however, when the regression …

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

rates and poverty. The estimates reveal that ex ante predictions of certain impacts of conditional cash transfer programs …