individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food production. The region's contribution to high and volatile international food … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into …

This paper provides new insight into the poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability issues in Mali, using existing … the shocks. Finally, it estimates vulnerability to poverty by modeling both households' expected consumption and their … conventional knowledge about poverty, food poverty, and malnutrition. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is high in Mali, with …

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 …

burdens associated with fiscal policy depends on the size of the government, the distributive mechanisms involved, and the … incentives properties of the policy under consideration. This creates a need for analytical methods to account for both …

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 …