, asset accumulation, or income smoothing in agriculture and off-farm activities. It combines household survey data collected … that cash transfers increase household consumption by about 10 percent on average. Importantly, this increase is mostly … differences in household durables or livestock are observed. Overall, these findings suggest that cash transfer programs targeting …

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 …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct … using household survey data. Poorer households are more likely to be affected by floods; directly affected households are …

This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare … vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent … increase in the share of households that are vulnerable to poverty. The greater degree of vulnerability is also evident from …

understanding of households' vulnerability to shock-induced poverty is critical for disaster risk management and the design of … structural poverty but not for assessing the vulnerability of non-poor households to fall below the poverty line when they … households' vulnerability to poverty in Malawi. To accurately estimate the impacts of shocks on consumption and vulnerability …