sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is linked to the adoption of an increasing returns to scale … poverty reduction is measured as a continuous decline in the share of the population living below $1.90/day purchasing power … not live in a market large enough to experience sustained poverty reduction. …

to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …

households living in extreme poverty-Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Rwanda. Consistent with the theoretical model, the results …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …

Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced …. The large gap between the government's expenditures and revenues helps explain the positive outcomes on poverty and …