Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and …