Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household …

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …