While urbanization has great potential to facilitate poverty reduction, climate shocks represent a looming threat to … to support poor households to escape from poverty. Combining household surveys with climatic datasets, the panel … escape from poverty, indicating better access to economic opportunities in those areas. However, the climate shocks offset …

Can features extracted from high spatial resolution satellite imagery accurately estimate poverty and economic well … Lanka. These features are used to estimate poverty rates and average expected log consumption taken from small … percent of the variation in average expected log consumption, and between 37 and 62 percent for poverty rates. Estimates …

would contribute not only to alleviating poverty but also to achieving Tanzania's electrification and clean cooking …

, Michael Keen, and Abhinay Muthoo -- Part IV Corruption, Income Distribution, and Poverty -- 16 Production, Rent Seeking, and …

most effectively be combated to improve governance, increase economic growth, and reduce poverty. The authors examine how … poverty, the effect of corruption on government expenditures on health and education, and the importance of structural reforms …