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 …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held … on 1,000+ variables. This GDP-based approach outperforms all models that predict poverty rates directly, even when the …

poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country …One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … poverty reduction are strongest in the developing countries in which there has been the most rapid integration with the global …

of "globalization." The author views the issue through both "macro" and "micro" empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely … based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures suffer in practice from limitations that have … led to credible criticisms. This paper presents the case for multidimensional poverty measures, two criticisms against …