warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further …

, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …

. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … estimates, which even fall within one standard error of the true poverty rates in many cases. Further adding geospatial …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …