translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty …. Collectively these chapters provide a nuanced discussion of key distributive phenomena like the high concentration of income among …

services in 2030) halve poverty impacts compared with the pessimistic baselines. Health impacts (malaria, diarrhea, and …Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct … (damage to or loss of assets or property) and indirect (losses involving health, infrastructure, labor, and education) impacts … percent of annual income on average. Surprisingly, poorer households are not over-represented among the households that lost …