the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to … commonly used poverty nowcasting methods and ranks their performance by comparing country-specific and regional poverty … nowcasts with actual poverty estimates for 2003?14 period. The validation results show that the two bottom-up approaches, which …

This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1 … poverty is primarily rural and young; 80 percent of the extreme poor and 75 percent of the moderate poor live in rural areas … in households with three or more children. Gender differences in poverty rates are muted, and there is scant evidence of …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty … official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the recent … the dispersion of country-specific poverty lines, the paper concludes that the value of a regional poverty line largely …

This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The …, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to … poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to salaried nonfarm workers and higher …

The continued poverty impact of the financial crisis in Serbia is difficult to establish beyond 2010 because of the … pathway of the financial crisis in Serbia, the labor market. The results suggest a further increase in poverty in 2011 on … compared with realized poverty estimates. The micro-simulation model performs well in predicting poverty dynamics during 2009 …

in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced substantial declines in … poverty. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the analysis generates entire counterfactual …

This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and …-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important contributor was the growth in labor income … wages as the driving force behind poverty declines. Lower dependency ratios also helped to reduce poverty, particularly in …