Divorce and widowhood succeeded by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's well-being. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to dissolutions and remarriage and hence bear more of the …

For the last decade, economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has sharply accelerated, pushing poverty … make optimistic predictions less certain and threaten to undermine gains against poverty and inequality, it is critical to … understand the structural forces that have promoted recent positive social outcomes. This report explores how women in the region …

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 … 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 …Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically …

Frequent measurement of poverty is challenging, as measurement often relies on complex and expensive expenditure … questions about the consistency of the poverty-tracking efforts currently applied across countries, since obtaining exhaustive …

monthly precipitation data to investigate the nature of the monsoon shock and to quantify household vulnerability to it. The … authors find that the impact of the monsoon shock is concentrated in communities where water-intensive paddy dominates wet … months after the wet season harvest, all decline in response to a negative monsoon rainfall shock. A one standard deviation …