is on Goal 8, which is to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and …

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

Poverty is still a major problem in Pakistan. (...) We have long known that agricultural growth is closely related to … poverty reduction. Recent studies (...) provide massive statistical evidence of this relationship. Rural growth and … agricultural growth have a major effect on poverty reduction; urban growth and manufacturing growth do not. (...) The poor in rural …