Analysis of data from Brazil suggest that poverty responds asymmetrically to output shocks, showing less tendency to …

"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 …

a small increase in household income on child labor should be concentrated among children most vulnerable to … allocation at peak school attendance ages and among children already out of school at baseline, but have large impacts at ages …

"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …

for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …