This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …

, poverty is estimated to increase by about 2.9 percentage points, with the direct impact accounting for a third of this … the poorest bottom 50 percent of the population and reduce poverty to below pre-reform levels. The annual cost of the …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two different scenarios for its … poverty years and 4.3 million years of life lost across 150 countries. The ratio of PYs to LYs is very large in most countries …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …

Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in … most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …

's fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …