poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction …-effects model of poverty measures for rural India, calibrated to a panel of 59 regions observed four times over 1993-2012. The … expansion of lit area had greater effect on the rural poverty measures than did intensive margin growth in the brightness of …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …