in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression …

As global extreme poverty has fallen -- by one measure, from close to 2 billion people in 1990 to about 700 million … extreme poverty. In the 1960s and 1970s, when close to half of the world was living in extreme poverty, the approach that … investing in education, health, and family planning. When extreme poverty rates came down?first in East Asia and then in other …

This paper sheds light on the impact of improving employment and education conditions on poverty and social exclusion … and education lead countries to achieve the Europe 2020 poverty and social exclusion target with no other policy … different settings and uses widely available household survey data. The simulation model analyzes poverty and social exclusion …

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 … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …

, 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 …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …