-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as … households, suggesting that different mechanisms?such as land scarcity?are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression …

This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It … disasters. It discusses detrimental long-term consequences for the income and welfare of the poor and the presence of poverty …

transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … indirect taxes; the poverty headcount ratio increases by 2.3 percentage points. Going forward, the combination of raising …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive capacity, resilience, and poverty alleviation. The … implications of the fact that poor households are more likely than non-poor households to be located in flood-prone areas. The … study used the land use maps for the selected flood-prone areas to determine the extent and spread of poor and non …