The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to … are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …

This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare … vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent … recession did not result in a substantial increase in absolute poverty by the official definition, it led to a considerable …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …

's fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …