This report presents the case of the state of Ceara in Brazil that overcame adverse socioeconomic conditions to …

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic arrived in Brazil while the poorest forty percent of the population was still … recovering from the 2014-2016 crisis. After boosting Latin America's reduction in poverty and inequality for the previous decade …, Brazil's 2014-2016 crisis and recovery are a stark departure from the previous decade as Brazil's inclusive growth turned …

positive impacts on poverty in Brazil. The only states which show an increase in the number of poor households are Sao Paulo …This paper addresses the potential effects of world agricultural trade liberalization on poverty and regional income … distribution in Brazil, using an inter-regional applied general equilibrium (AGE) and a micro-simulation model of Brazil tailored …

poverty map estimators. Applications to simulated data and to poverty estimation in Brazil show an overall good performance …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 …

), as of 2015, around 39,880 full time equivalent workers (of which about 35 percent women) were formally employed by the …

opportunities, including for women and youth. This paper examines the role of e-commerce participation in household income growth …

Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in … most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …

, 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 …