Nepal made remarkable progress in poverty reduction between 1995 and 2010, a period coinciding with a decade … as instrumental to lifting the living conditions of Nepal's impoverished rural areas, a bulk of the observed poverty …. About 50 percent of the poverty reduction witnessed between 1995 and 2010 was associated with growth in labor incomes …

Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty … USAID poverty assessment tool and base data are used for demonstration of these methods; however, the methods applied in … this paper should be considered for PMT and other poverty-targeting tool development more broadly …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression …-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from … Poverty Scorecard is as good as any of the regression-based estimators. The findings change, however, when the regression …

that the cross-country allocations of aggregate trust fund aid are poverty- and policy-selective. In this respect, they are … and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of … countries'sector policies, while environmental trust funds are neither poverty selective nor correlated with the assessed …

This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

across states to that of primary roads can yield a reduction in poverty from the rate of 51.7 percent in 2009 to between 42 …

In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and … vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during … the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional …

model that shows how exogenous variations in market power affect poverty. Increased market power leads to economy … incomes of households, particularly among the poor. Declines in poverty in this context are only possible in the case wherein … poverty eradication. This result suggest the possibility of taxing extranormal rents extracted by firms with market power and …