Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages-leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow the … pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …

's fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …

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 …

"Telling a policy maker that poverty will increase due to the recent increase in food prices is not very useful … crisis can be targeted to areas that need them the most. This paper shows how to use poverty mapping techniques to assess … the potential positive impact of higher food prices on rice producers is taken into account, in which case poverty may …

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