Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the … and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty …

emerging markets-the Nordics, India, Brazil, and Egypt-to try to answer this question. We highlight qualitatively in these … role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …

countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …