Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was … hardly analyzed up till now. Here, we evaluate the effect of commercialization on income poverty, as well as on the …

treatment effects of supermarket contracts on income and multidimensional poverty. On average, supermarket contracts increase … per capita income in smallholder farm households by 60%. We also find significant reductions in income poverty and … multidimensional poverty. Quantile regressions show that farmers in all income groups benefit, but richer households benefit more than …

reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

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 …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in … compares multidimensional poverty measures such as the Multidimensional Poverty Index used by the UNDP (an index based on the … individuals. To the latter family belong the poverty measures introduced by Chakravarty and D'Ambrosio (2006) and Rippin (2010 …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …

the concepts and measurements of vulnerability to poverty by classifying them into welfarist, expected poverty, and … axiomatic approaches. We then review a number of empirical studies on vulnerability to poverty in Asia and elsewhere. This … review shows that poverty and vulnerability are related, but different, and that key determinants of vulnerability often …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …