We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …

foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the … panel data of 10 Asian developing countries. In terms of the dependent variables, this paper sets three poverty indicators …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …

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 …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

Bangladesh has achieved notable progress in poverty reduction including reduction in extreme poverty since 1990. Still … a good proportion of the people in the country are living in extreme poverty and suffering from various kinds of … marginalization and address them appropriately in order to help the extreme poor and the marginalized communities to overcome poverty …