indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms …-based policies aimed at increasing educational attainment would have substantial impacts on poverty reduction, but muted effects on … distribution of earnings and for the distribution of household income per capita. A large share of the poverty reducing effect of …

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms …-based policies aimed at increasing educational attainment would have substantial impacts on poverty reduction, but muted effects on … distribution of earnings and for the distribution of household income per capita. A large share of the poverty reducing effect of …

-simulations. The first family of micro-simulations decomposes required poverty changes into a change in the mean and a reduction in … their interpretation.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …