We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework …

There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes … poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project … targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty …

findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather … than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile … significantly associated with reduced downward mobility and increased income growth. However, a similar transition from the private …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short … growth. However, a similar transition from the private sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian Federation … demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose …

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet … data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We address these challenges by proposing a novel typology of FHHs and analyze …, Iraq, Jordan, Mauritania, Palestine, and Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels …

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 … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …