Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the … process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in Sri Lanka. The analysis …

Minimum wage policy supported by a strong social policy is an efficient mechanism against poverty and income erosion of …

This study assesses the short-term impact of fiscal policy, and its individual elements, on poverty and inequality in … Cambodia as of 2019. It applies the Commitment to Equity methodology to data from the Cambodia Socio-economic Survey of 2019 … presents among the first empirical evidence on the impact of taxes and social spending on households in Cambodia. The study …

This study assesses the short-term impact of fiscal policy, and its individual elements, on poverty and inequality in … Cambodia as of 2019. It applies the Commitment to Equity methodology to data from the Cambodia Socio-economic Survey of 2019 … presents among the first empirical evidence on the impact of taxes and social spending on households in Cambodia. The study …

avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …