Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is generally highlighted as a puzzle that deviates from the stylized facts in …-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in …

Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue …. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … poverty through data collected from national surveys and administrative records of government agencies. The estimations show …

The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to … are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …

This study investigates the impact of energy consumption on poverty reduction in a panel of 12 African countries over a … relationship exists between energy consumption and poverty level, which underscores the importance of energy in poverty reduction … stability have significant effect on poverty implying that these factors play critical role in reducing poverty. Furthermore …