inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …-being effects for the affected households. It is estimated that households? losses due to the April 2018 flood reached more than US … households were less likely to recover from flood exposure. The report finds that access to finance play an important role in …

concludes with two policy implications. First, flood management could be considered as a component of the poverty … who were affected and those who were not affected by the flood. (2) Poorer households lost less than their richer … of income, and access to coping mechanisms, but not by their poverty, as measured by the annual expenditure level. (4 …

progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ?ending extreme poverty.? However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as ?data deprivation,? because …

This paper studies the benefits, in terms of reliability and frequency of poverty statistics, of conducting a hybrid …. Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries … consumption models developed from a previous round of household survey data to project poverty data. Although this approach is …

poverty trends in Sri Lanka between 2006 and 2009. Survey-to-survey imputation methods rely on two key assumptions: (i) that … large share of the intertemporal change in household expenditure and poverty. In addition, differences in sampling design … adequately capture changes in poverty. The paper concludes that in Sri Lanka, survey-to-survey imputation between the Household …

poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be … not enough and sharing prosperity within and across countries is essential to end extreme poverty in one generation …

Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …