This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban …

In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and … vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during … the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional …

distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. It finds that workers and jobs are not well …

Surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 to investigate the relationship between environmental risks and poverty. Using recently … drought hazards, the study shows: (i) at the district level, there are hotspots of high poverty and environmental risks; (ii …

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 …

these spatial distributions of rural population influence poverty directly or indirectly via income growth in 83 developing … countries from 2000 to 2012. The analysis finds no evidence of a direct impact on poverty, but there is a significant indirect … impact via the elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to growth. Reducing poverty requires targeting rural populations …