This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous welfare impacts within the … in past crisis responses and identifies key design features for safety net programs that can help compensate for the …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for … schooling of children in poor families. As in other areas of policy, effective responses to a crisis require sound data and must … crisis-macroeconomic stabilization, trade policies, financial sector policies and social protection-cannot ignore longer …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

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 …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …

contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio …-economic status. The results instead suggest that economic and multi-dimensional shocks such as illness or crisis can have a greater … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …