This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …

Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most … speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …

, poverty is estimated to increase by about 2.9 percentage points, with the direct impact accounting for a third of this … the poorest bottom 50 percent of the population and reduce poverty to below pre-reform levels. The annual cost of the …

North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … of other second-best strategies can be employed. Using imputation methods can help to measure monetary poverty …. Constructing non-monetary poverty and asset indexes from less robust surveys, using non-traditional surveys such as phone surveys …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two different scenarios for its … poverty years and 4.3 million years of life lost across 150 countries. The ratio of PYs to LYs is very large in most countries …

correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant using the World Bank's Doing Business … indicators on getting credit and contract enforcement. The findings suggest that the conduit for poverty reduction is business …

, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …

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