risk of poverty or deeper impoverishment due to structural factors and risks, particularly climate-related events. The … populations of Peru, Colombia, and Honduras exhibit the highest levels of vulnerability to climate-induced poverty in relative … drive most households into poverty, climate-related events exert a disproportionately severe impact on welfare when they …

Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to … commonly used poverty nowcasting methods and ranks their performance by comparing country-specific and regional poverty … nowcasts with actual poverty estimates for 2003–14 period. The validation results show that the two bottom-up approaches, which …

into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth of the middle class, and lower … income growth. The countries of South America outperformed Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in poverty reduction … during the decade up to 2012. But since then, a new story has emerged. In recent years, poverty reduction has been …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty … official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the recent … the dispersion of country-specific poverty lines, the paper concludes that the value of a regional poverty line largely …

status and poverty is not consistent across countries. Social protection and schooling policies need to assess the specific …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in …

Climate change and climate policies will affect poverty reduction efforts through direct and immediate impacts on the … poor and by affecting factors that condition poverty reduction, such as economic growth. This paper explores this relation … between climate change and policies and poverty outcomes by examining three questions: the (static) impact on poor people …