indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and …

Poverty and inequality persist in many dimensions in the developing world. In order to understand the determinants of … poverty and its distribution between and within countries, it is necessary to know its dimensions and the channels through … which poverty and inequality affect human well-being. This book analyzes the spatial disparities of the outcomes and …