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 …

growth in mean incomes and changes in the distribution of relative incomes to reductions in absolute poverty, and, in turn …, examines the role of income inequality for poverty reduction. The analysis finds that the assumption that income is log … poverty reduction are calculated. The inequality elasticity of poverty reduction is larger, on average, compared to the …

The debate on the environment-poverty nexus is inconclusive, with past research unable to identify the causal dynamics …. This paper uses a unique global panel data set that links (survey and census derived) poverty data to measures of … degree environmental quality matters for poverty reduction. The paper draws three main conclusions. (1) The environment …