extreme poverty. In the 1960s and 1970s, when close to half of the world was living in extreme poverty, the approach that …As global extreme poverty has fallen -- by one measure, from close to 2 billion people in 1990 to about 700 million … today -- the world has learned about antipoverty strategies that work. These experiences should inform the final push to end …

This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions: How have female-headed households … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data …

2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use …, including that of modern energy, and estimates the household minimum energy requirement that could be used as a basis for an … energy poverty line. The paper finds that although the use of both traditional (biomass energy burned in conventional stoves …

of income, and access to coping mechanisms, but not by their poverty, as measured by the annual expenditure level. (4 … concludes with two policy implications. First, flood management could be considered as a component of the poverty … living in poverty before the shock …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world … measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. The paper focuses on the relationship between age, sex and poverty. And …. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by …

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote … percentage points faster than the mean, the World Bank's poverty goal is achieved with the global poverty falling to below 3 … simulates the global poverty headcount under three growth scenarios for the bottom 40 percent up to 2030. The analysis deploys a …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of …Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank … alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations of aid by the International Development Association, the World …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become …

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 …