find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

, where issues of inequality and poverty are high on the national agenda, a community development program, the National … Initiative for Human Development, targeted high-poverty areas for additional investments. This paper examines whether, in … addition to reducing poverty, such programs can also promote human development, specifically early childhood development. Early …

shows that the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the … program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of …

declines continuously with rising living standards; 3) the tendency of poorer children to have higher rates of stunting, and …

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 …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …