took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty … services are most severely affected. A renewed drought shock could lead to an increase in poverty of 9 percentage points. The …Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating …

individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …

Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to … of poverty reduction have been higher for participants. Testing the net effect of microcredit programs requires applying …

energy poverty line. The paper finds that although the use of both traditional (biomass energy burned in conventional stoves … poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent … biomass use can lower energy poverty in a climate-friendly way by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy poverty …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …

local politicians, public works aiming to maximize their impact on poverty should rely on an objective and transparent …

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial … reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight …, or wasted, undernutrition remains an important child health challenge. The existing literature highlights that the …