This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes … greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and the higher the mean income, the higher the … downturn; and (iii) higher growth does not bring diminishing returns to poverty reduction. Moreover, we show that very high …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … refugees in Chad, combining survey and administrative data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …