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 …

of progress towards the UN's seventeen Sustainable Development Goals related to: poverty, hunger, health, education …

-- Sustainable development goals -- 1. No poverty -- 2. Zero hunger -- 3. Good health and well-being -- 4. Quality education -- 5 … Goals: poverty, hunger, health, education, gender, water, energy, jobs, infrastructure, inequalities, cities, consumption … raised out of extreme poverty. Its elimination is now a realistic prospect, although this will require both sustained growth …

of evidence demonstrates that gender equality begins a virtuous circle of higher productivity, lower poverty, and better …

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

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

selected social inclusion goals; and (iv) model at risk of poverty (AROP) rates at the micro regional level. The report …