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 …

poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent (respectively, defined using the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia regional …Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have … fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate …

The paper examines the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a new cross …-country panel dataset on the distribution of income and expenditure. It uses an econometric methodology to gauge whether a larger … poverty, lower inequality or higher gross domestic product per capita. That may be linked to the evolution of the middle class …

million Filipinos per year face transient consumption poverty due to natural disasters. Nationally, the bottom income quintile …. First, there is a close link between natural disasters and poverty. On average, the estimates suggest that almost half a … areas. A focus on poverty or wellbeing rebalances the analysis and generates a different set of regional priorities. Finally …

Monitoring Survey to analyze the relation between age and subjective well-being in the Europe and Central Asia region. Although … Europe and Central Asia region, the paper does not observe high levels of cross-country or cross-cohort variation …

indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and … more resilient. Nationally and on average, the bottom income quintile suffers only 7 percent of the total asset losses but …

This paper analyzes the subjective impact of the global economic crisis on households in Europe and Central Asia and …-thirds of respondents in Europe and Central Asia report their household was subjectively affected, primarily through the labor … biases. Within countries, richer households felt a decline in their relative income position, consistent with evidence from …

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 …