This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages-leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow the … pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that Egyptian fiscal policy reduces income inequality, and that among individual … Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced …. The large gap between the government's expenditures and revenues helps explain the positive outcomes on poverty and …

The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …

American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent decades in references to poverty and … inequality. The study's long-term view shows that the way in which poverty and inequality are discussed has been changing. Using … a Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm, the paper shows that in recent years poverty has been increasingly discussed as …

unanticipated health shocks …

typically limited. That prevents administering the lengthy household consumption expenditure surveys used for measuring poverty …. This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased estimates of poverty when the time to conduct interviews is a binding …, the approach is demonstrated to yield reliable estimates of per capita consumption and poverty using data from a regular …

widely used operational definition-the growth rate in the average income of the poorest 40 percent of a country's population … social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper then looks at …