Close to half of the population of Afghanistan was living below the national poverty line prior to the regime change in … August 2021, with no additional information on poverty collected in the country since the last official household survey in … analysis trains a predictive model on data from the 2019/20 Expenditure and Labor Force survey and imputes poverty in the …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the East Asia and the Pacific region. Macroeconomic …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Macroeconomic indicators …

This paper delves into Bulgaria's persistent issue of child poverty, even amidst policy efforts at the European Union …' effectiveness in alleviating child poverty. Our results show that Bulgaria's fiscal system has a limited impact on the overall at …-risk of poverty rate, though it shows potential in reducing poverty for lower income deciles. Bulgaria's fiscal system reduces …

The share of Uganda's population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly … into poverty. Inequality, which reflects the extent to which different population groups benefit from Gross Domestic … Product (GDP) growth, and affects the transmission of growth into poverty reduction, remained largely unchanged over this …

Recent years have witnessed considerable methodological advances in poverty mapping, much of which has focused on the … application of modern machine-learning approaches to remotely sensed data. Poverty maps produced with these methods generally …-learning-based poverty estimates with survey-based, direct estimates. Although unbiased, survey-based estimates at a granular level can be …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …

addressing poverty in both urban and rural areas. This study aims to tackle this issue by comparing subnational poverty … global poverty measurement framework. Focusing primarily on 16 Sub-Saharan African countries, the analysis reveals that … poverty rates tend to be lower in densely populated urban areas. However, the findings also highlight that urban areas have a …

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 …