Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...

Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is an approach used increasingly by governments, civil society organizations, the World Bank, and other development partners to examine the distributional impacts of policy reforms on the well-being of different stakeholders groups, particularly the poor...

Contents; Foreword; List of Contributors; 1 Lessons from the Implementation of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms; 2 Nicaragua: The Impact of the Fiscal Equity Law Reform; FIGURES; TABLES; 3 Burkina Faso: A Macroeconomic Approach to Analyze Cotton Sector Reform; 4 Mozambique: School...

Poverty simulations suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented by the government to contain the spread of the virus will increase the number of poor in the country. As such, various social safety nets were implemented by both the national and local government agencies to...