rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …, perform well in urban settings. Yet, in rural samples and when identifying the extreme poor, household rankings and poverty …

national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …According to the official statistics published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, the country … registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …

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 … most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to … are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …