those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of poverty in a manner that meets both …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …