-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after five … years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), extreme 1.25 USD poverty headcount had reached a historical … record in poverty, with northern areas deeply impoverished by the partition …

, limited evidence exists on the welfare impacts in developing countries, where the negative impacts of climate change and … training and its welfare effects on farm households in Northern Ghana using doubly robust estimators. We find that the … intervention had statistically significant positive effects on agricultural productivity and welfare outcomes. The results show the …

barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are … inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional requirements. We propose national poverty lines based on the cost of a … healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios and the poverty gap. According to these poverty lines 2 …

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to …

The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a … poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way resolve these problems. We present alternate estimates of global …, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail. These …

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to …

Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many …-oriented farming - can play a central role in improving smallholder welfare. Previous studies evaluated the impact of agricultural … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

, limited evidence exists on the welfare impacts in developing countries, where the negative impacts of climate change and … training and its welfare effects on farm households in Northern Ghana using doubly robust estimators. We find that the … intervention had statistically significant positive effects on agricultural productivity and welfare outcomes. The results show the …

barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are … inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional requirements. We propose national poverty lines based on the cost of a … healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios and the poverty gap. According to these poverty lines 2 …