data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …

Viet Nam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … inequality gap has been rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly segregated in … economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on inequality levels. It also finds that greater inequality has had …

the population living below the poverty line in some countries in the region. Indeed, people living in poverty are more … the extreme poor population is exposed to at least one climate shock. The region hosts climate-poverty hot spots in the … Republic of Yemen and Morocco, where adaptation to climate change will be crucial to end poverty. The resulting high …

, countries have frequently revised upward their national poverty lines to make them appropriate for the new measures of … consumption. This in turn affects the World Bank's global poverty lines when they are periodically revised. The international … poverty line, which is based on the typical poverty line in low-income countries, increases by around 40 percent to $3.00 when …

extend well beyond environmental concerns. Among the most pressing challenges is its impact on global poverty. This paper … projects the potential impacts of unmitigated climate change on global poverty rates between 2023 and 2050. Building on a study … findings with binned data from 217 countries, sourced from the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform. By simulating …

Most multidimensional poverty measures used in practice, including the global Multidimensional Poverty Index, are based … on the adjusted headcount ratio. This paper shows that this poverty index provides perverse incentives. Policies that …

Accurate and timely poverty measurement is central to development policy, yet the availability of up-to-date high …-quality household survey data remains limited-particularly in countries where poverty is most concentrated. Survey-to-survey imputation … has emerged as a practical response to this challenge, allowing practitioners to update poverty estimates using recent …

This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size …. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large or very large cities. This basic … pattern is generally robust to choice of poverty line. The paper shows, further, that for all eight countries, a majority of …