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 … recession did not result in a substantial increase in absolute poverty by the official definition, it led to a considerable …

This note provides an update of recent poverty and shared prosperity dynamics, and some of the underlying drivers, as … well as introducing the new international poverty thresholds that are currently in use. The purpose of the update is to … take advantage of the release of Household Budget Survey (HBS) data for the 2016 survey round. The previous poverty and …

This paper has the goal of presenting the first comprehensive update of poverty, inequality and shared prosperity … trends - and key drivers of these trends - since 2003 until 2015, that is starting with the end of the most recent poverty … aims to present some emerging challenges to continued poverty reduction and inclusive growth in the near future. Relying on …

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 …

and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … poverty estimates dating as far back as 2009. The escalation and expansion of the civil conflict posed severe challenges to … methodological innovations to establish a reliable system of data collection and obtain valid poverty estimates. Focusing on the 2016 …

and, especially, to estimate national poverty indicators. The specific context of insecurity and lack of statistical … infrastructure in Somalia posed several challenges for implementing a household survey and measuring poverty. This paper outlines how … time on the ground based on the Rapid Consumption Methodology. Third, poverty in completely inaccessible areas had to be …

assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality in Moldova. The paper presents the … contribution of different taxes and transfers to poverty and inequality reduction in Moldova, as well as the cost-effectiveness of … different taxes and transfers in achieving these poverty and inequality reduction goals. The analysis finds that the tax …

Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more …