find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their … the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school. The potential endogeneity of …

The author empirically explores the relationship between household poverty and the incidence and treatment of fever …--as an indicator of malaria--among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. He uses household Demographic and Health Survey data … between reported fever and poverty. The geographic association becomes insignificant, however, after controlling for the …

In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania … introduced an anti-poverty program, namely Ndihma Ekonomike; in 1995 it was extended to all poor households. This paper estimates … subjective measures of household poverty. The analysis uses the nationally representative Albanian Living Standards Measurement …

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 … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

implications of the new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for China's poverty rate (by international … ICP data. Using an international poverty line of USD 1.25 at 2005 PPP, we find a substantially higher poverty rate for … China than past estimates, with about 15% of the population living in consumption poverty, implying about 130 million more …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

a small increase in household income on child labor should be concentrated among children most vulnerable to … allocation at peak school attendance ages and among children already out of school at baseline, but have large impacts at ages …