This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 …-in-difference methods. The findings show that increases in migration to Gulf-Malaysia explain 40 percent of the decline in poverty between …

exogenous variation around eligibility age was exploited to uncover the causal effects of this expansion on extreme poverty and … of the elderly being extreme poor, but it also reduced the extreme poverty gap, and the extreme poverty severity indexes … of the elderly population. These effects on extreme poverty are generalizable to all individuals of the treated household …

collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity … technique can produce reliable poverty estimates from only 10 to 20 simple questions. However, this approach may lead to biased …. By conducting the first survey experiment to examine potential differences in poverty estimates between interview modes …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages -- leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow … the pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

households living in extreme poverty -- Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Rwanda. Consistent with the theoretical model, the results …

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 …

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