China's medium-term prospects for growth, poverty reduction, and development. The paper reviews China's pre-crisis growth …

Measuring the poverty and distributional impact of the global crisis for developing countries is not easy, given the … addressing questions like who are being affected by the crisis and by how much, and who are vulnerable to falling into poverty if … literature, to measure the poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks by linking macro projections with pre …

partially compensate many losers from the crisis, and reduced extreme poverty …

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 …

This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions: How have female-headed households … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data …

unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more …