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 …

Substantial upward economic mobility in the majority of countries in Europe and Central Asia in the 2000s translated … into achievements in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Although factors associated with upward mobility vary … significantly by country, education and jobs undoubtedly play an important role in lifting households out of poverty and helping …

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 …

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 …

data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis …Little research currently exists on a vulnerability line that distinguishes the poor population from the population … that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap …

vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income …Measurement of the middle class has recently come to the center of policy debate in middle-income countries as they … -- associated with a low probability of falling into poverty -- which could define the lower bound of the middle class. The paper …

This study explores the short-run transitions between poverty, vulnerability, and middle class, using synthetic panels … paper reports results from two approaches to define a vulnerability line: the first one employs a nonparametric and … range of between $8 to $13 per day per person in 2005 purchasing power parity dollars as the vulnerability line. Using an …