contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held … on 1,000+ variables. This GDP-based approach outperforms all models that predict poverty rates directly, even when the …