exogenous variation around eligibility age was exploited to uncover the causal effects of this expansion on extreme poverty and … of the elderly being extreme poor, but it also reduced the extreme poverty gap, and the extreme poverty severity indexes … of the elderly population. These effects on extreme poverty are generalizable to all individuals of the treated household …

The proportion of Ugandan households living in poverty reduced by more than half between 1993 and 2013. Using household … survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the … observed reduction in monetary-based poverty are reflected in the nonmonetary indicators of poverty. The results show that …

This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better …-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator … Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In particular …, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty reduction …

poverty map estimators. Applications to simulated data and to poverty estimation in Brazil show an overall good performance …Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper …