is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in …

This poverty diagnostic reviews welfare outcomes in the Islamic Republic of Iran between 2011 and 2020, with a focus on … poverty and shared prosperity. Iran is the only country in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) that collects high … diagnostic will look at the trends, determinants, and drivers of poverty in Iran at the national, subnational, and household …

This report - the Central African Republic's (CAR’s) first ever poverty assessment — draws on unparalleled microdata to … propose practical strategies for lifting Central Africans out of poverty. Against the backdrop of a wide range of development … urgently needs policies for reducing poverty. This report draws primarily on the 2021 Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de …

the coverage rates of the programs, their incidence, and their effectiveness in reducing poverty and inequality, based on …

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 South Asia region. Macroeconomic indicators such as …

major limitations, such as the absence of poverty data, sampling bias due to incomplete telephone coverage in many … pilots in 20 countries where the Survey of Wellbeing via Instant and Frequent Tracking, a rapid poverty monitoring tool, was … adopted to estimate poverty rates based on 10 to 15 simple questions collected via phone interviews, and where sampling …

This paper analyzes extreme child poverty ($2.15/day poverty line) trends, as well as child poverty based on the higher … international poverty lines of $3.65 and $6.85. The paper provides a trajectory of extreme child poverty (children living in …), complemented by nowcasting for 2020 to 2022. Children continue to be disproportionately affected by extreme poverty. Children who …

In many countries, large differences in poverty persist at the subnational level. In addition, global challenges such … risks for poverty reduction both across and within countries. Traditional poverty measures are generally presented at the … national level, potentially obscuring local and regional variations of poverty and inequality. To overcome these challenges …

This study assesses the distributional impacts of public expenditures and taxes on poverty and inequality in the … from poverty targeted social safety net cash transfers and generous pension allowances, the fiscal system reduces short …-term poverty by 5 percentage points when evaluated using the international poverty line of US$5.5. This is one of the largest in …

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely … based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures suffer in practice from limitations that have … led to credible criticisms. This paper presents the case for multidimensional poverty measures, two criticisms against …