This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … allow movement out of poverty. For urban areas, location and access to particular types of jobs appears to matter. The paper … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …

children. The impacts are analyzed in terms of monetary (food) poverty, nutrition, education, child labor and access to health … services of children. According to simulations, food poverty among children would have increased from 41% to 51%, with a … included (leakage). These identification errors, which increase in proportion with the extremity of poverty, reduce the impact …

This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the …

Macroeconomic crises not only affect the current living standards of the poor, but their ability to grow out of poverty …. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only … result in higher poverty rates but may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of this evidence …

This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A … erroneously undervalue profitable investments, and ii) poverty increases the magnitude of these investment errors. The model … predicts that poverty is perpetuated by inducing poor individuals to underinvest in profitable opportunities to a greater …

Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. This … paper, we introduce a concept of vulnerability, as a threat of poverty, with downside risk at its core. More specifically …, we define a vulnerability measure as an assessment of the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before …

relationship between conflict and food insecurity in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in … levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, high conflict provinces are not the most food … insecure. Using a simple bivariate regression model of conflict (violent incidents and persons killed or injured) on food …

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There … poor welfare outcomes contrasts with evidence from other conflict settings, and further contrasts with the rationale …

relationship of subjective well-being and several measures of fuel poverty. We study fuel poverty and its effects on life … satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in comparison to income poverty. We find a negative and significant effect of … fuel poverty and subjective well-being. The effects are comparable in magnitude to those of other important factors of life …