nutrition remains a problem in rural areas across Southeast Asia despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results reveal …Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia has not fully translated into reduction in malnutrition. Using a … poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we compare nutritional outcomes of children below five …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … Agatha with respect to the harvest cycle of the main crops. The results are robust to placebo treatments, household migration …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …

poverty levels and a widening rural-urban gap. …This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985-99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the …

predictor of higher poverty incidence and poverty severity on average for all countries. Federalism does not predict lower … poverty incidence and severity in developing countries. Thus for a developing economy such as the Philippines, Federalism … appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. …