the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is hard to know with any certainty what a …-)simulation modelling are very encouraging. The estimated first-round effects on poverty are for the most part disappointing, especially in …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …

demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …; the choice of base surveys for estimating the imputation model; different poverty lines; and alternative (quarterly or …

The article posits that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the … distribution across households worsens aggregated poverty at the state level. Similarly, good-quality jobs help households escape … poverty, whereas poor-quality jobs do not. This paper suggests that eradicating poverty requires the government to direct …

The problem of poverty, both in theory and practice, gained a new meaning with the beginning of the transformation of … evaluating anti-poverty programs should be preceded by identifying who is considered poor. Defining poverty is the first and a … key step in measuring its characteristics, e.g., its intensity. Hence, the choice of a specific definition of poverty is …

Goal 1 (No poverty), Goal 2 (Zero hunger) and Goal 3 (Good health and well-being). Another purpose, recognized as the added …