Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …

effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … in Indonesia are poorer than other types of households, and thus they tend to spend their remittances at the margin on …

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …

Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …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 …

, 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 …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … analysis draws on the synthetic panels to derive a vulnerability line for India that can be used to separate out a population … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the $1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a 2014 …-15 head- count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …

This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …