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 …

Although the measurement and determinants of poverty have been widely studied, vulnerability, or the threat of future … poverty, has been more difficult to investigate due to data paucity. This paper combines nationally representative household … data with objective drought and price information to quantify the causes of vulnerability to poverty in Ethiopia. Previous …

Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in … payments from weather index insurance allow farmers to cultivate a larger land area in the season following a weather shock …

This paper analyzes environmental reliance, poverty, and climate vulnerability among more than 7,300 households in … the Poverty Environment Network project. Observed income is combined with predicted income (based on households? assets …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6 percent, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage … points (an increase of 18 percent). The negative effects of the shock span other areas of human welfare. Households cut back … with the shock by increasing their labor supply (on the intensive margin) and simultaneously relying on the labor supply of …

population below the poverty line. The shocks considered are not worst case scenarios, but those that can and have occurred …

consumption and around 0.4 fewer meals per day per person. Poverty increased by 12 and 17.5 percentage points in two of the three … protection in the aftermath of the shock at the cost of lower income growth in the future. In disentangling the channels, the …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies … and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The …