Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages -- leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow … the pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

districts have better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty …

generalized Gini for the measurement of distributional change. Population- and income-weighted relative deprivation indices are …

the non-poor, since they own the lion's share of agricultural land. The results suggest that poverty in India will be …

of poverty but fairly decent living conditions. By contrast, most of Nairobi's slum residents have jobs and comparatively … levels are high, but living conditions are not as bad as in Nairobi. These findings suggest that reduction in income poverty … conditions. Since not all slum residents are poor, living conditions also vary within slums depending on poverty status. Compared …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially … the positive impact of aid and troops. According to the estimates, Afghan troops contributed more to poverty reduction …

This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …