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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2012

This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...

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Poverty Traps, Aid, and Growth

Kraay, Aart; Raddatz, Claudio - 2012

The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of development. They then use these models to assess the...

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International Remittances and the Household : Analysis and Review of Global Evidence

Adams, Richard H., Jr. - 2012

world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set …

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The Poverty and Distributional Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies : A Review of Modeling Approaches

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

World Bank and other international financial institutions. The specification of these models is dictated by the issues at …

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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...

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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation, and Poverty

Anderson, Kym; Ivanic, Maros; Martin, Will - 2013

This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in …

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Why Resilience Matters : The Poverty Impacts of Disasters

Rentschler, Jun E. - 2014

This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It analyzes 30 years of macro-level damage data from disasters (including earthquakes, floods, and storms), according to income groups, and shows that low-income countries incur...

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Is Extreme Poverty Going to End? An Analytical Framework to Evaluate Progress in Ending Extreme Poverty

Yoshida, Nobuo; Uematsu, Hiroki; Sobrado, Carlos E. - 2014

The World Bank has recently adopted a target of reducing the proportion of population living below US$1.25 a day at …

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Bailing Out the World's Poorest

Ravallion, Martin - 2012

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …

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