fund to promote the industrialization of agricultural products, in particular -- on farmgate prices and poverty in Guinea …

consumption poverty. The analysis finds that poor households in Uganda tend to be net buyers of food staples, and therefore suffer … foods. The paper estimates that both the incidence and depth of poverty have increased -- at least in the short run -- as a … result of higher food prices in 2008, increasing by 2.6 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively. The increase in poverty is …

Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to … commonly used poverty nowcasting methods and ranks their performance by comparing country-specific and regional poverty … nowcasts with actual poverty estimates for 2003?14 period. The validation results show that the two bottom-up approaches, which …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty … official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the recent … the dispersion of country-specific poverty lines, the paper concludes that the value of a regional poverty line largely …

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … confined to the poor within each population group (that is, "poverty targeted" transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …

Alleviating poverty for the elderly requires a different approach from other age groups, and a minimum pension is … likely to be the only viable option. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal … poverty rates for these countries. Then they discuss the design of minimum pensions schemes -- means-tested or not -- as well …

American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent decades in references to poverty and … inequality. The study's long-term view shows that the way in which poverty and inequality are discussed has been changing. Using … a Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm, the paper shows that in recent years poverty has been increasingly discussed as …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results … and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants …