This report examines poverty trends and distribution of the poor in this larger context, paying particular attention to … the most recent past. The report contributes to our understanding of the progress made in combating poverty in three ways …. First, it updates our knowledge of poverty outcomes by examining the trends in poverty and vulnerability, as well as the …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … refugees in Chad, combining survey and administrative data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect … taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct fiscal transfers. Although the richest people in Mali and Niger pay …

. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad …Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad …Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …