The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …

suggests it is context and method specific. Although changes in poverty and inequality are always statistically significant …

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 …

. Furthermore, in the communities most affected by the El Nino drought, the likelihood of falling into poverty was 14.4 percent …

finds no effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty. Overall, the findings add new evidence that mobile money can …