incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

The World Bank has recently adopted a target of reducing the proportion of population living below US$1.25 a day at … poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … world without antimicrobial resistance, the losses during 2015?50 may sum to $85 trillion in gross domestic product and $23 … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …

approved by the World Bank between 2005 and 2011. The analysis finds that the delivery of projects with impact evaluation is …

The authors assess the effect of economic instability on the success of projects funded by the World Bank using the …

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality … countries with the geographical distribution of the bottom 40. Applying this methodology to World Bank funding for projects … the bottom 40 and World Bank funding, and, in almost half of these, the correlation is above 0.5. Slightly more than a …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …