constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

This paper empirically examines the effect of financial development on poverty for a sample of developing countries … development on the poor when poverty is measured by the headcount index or the poverty gap at the cut-off line of $2 day (absolute … poverty). This finding is robust to the choice of a more conservative poverty line based on $1.25 a day. However, there is …

This paper quantifies the impact of climate change on agriculture in East Asian and South Asian countries using a CGE …

The economic welfare effects of climate change on global agriculture will be mediated by several complex biophysical … results contribute to a growing body of research on climate-induced changes on agriculture by highlighting several economic …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

The view of poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon has swiftly become mainstream. However, the debate remains open as … to how such ‘multidimensional poverty' should be assessed in practical settings, particularly when identifying the … beneficiaries of poverty alleviation programmes. This paper develops a novel empirical approach that explicitly takes into account …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method … ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification …