poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

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 aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the $1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a 2014 …-15 head- count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty … official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the recent … the dispersion of country-specific poverty lines, the paper concludes that the value of a regional poverty line largely …

error distributions. The application presented in this paper is the small area estimation of poverty and inequality …, although this denotes by no means the only application. Monte-Carlo simulations show that estimates of poverty and inequality … poverty rate of 20 to 30 percent. Most of this bias is resolved when using the proposed estimator. The approach is applicable …

on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this application, it is shown that … migration is important for reducing the likelihood that poor households remain in poverty and that non-poor households fall into … poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved heterogeneity would lead the researcher to …

World Bank's international poverty line of $1.90/day, at 2011 purchasing power parity, is based on a collection of … national poverty lines, which were originally used to set the international poverty line of $1.25/day at 2005 purchasing power … parity. This paper proposes an approach for estimating a more recent, complete, and comparable collection of national poverty …

Natural disasters have an impact on poverty through many different channels -- economic growth, health, schooling … next year, 26 million fewer people would be in extreme poverty?that is, living on less than $1.90 a day. A systematic …