. First, there is a close link between natural disasters and poverty. On average, the estimates suggest that almost half a … million Filipinos per year face transient consumption poverty due to natural disasters. Nationally, the bottom income quintile … areas. A focus on poverty or wellbeing rebalances the analysis and generates a different set of regional priorities. Finally …

indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and …

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 offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for … that other factors need to be considered when quantifying the extent of poverty and informing policy making for fighting … poverty. However, the author argues that there are two poorly understood issues in assessing these indices. First, does one …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

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 …