Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

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 …

trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …

This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … rate. Mobile broadband coverage also reduces the proportion of households below the poverty line, driven by higher food and …

consumption and a 10 percent decline in extreme poverty. These results are robust to controlling for household demographics and …