improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings …

paper, we document this phenomenon of seasonal poverty and discuss existing formal mechanisms for coping with it. We then …

improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program’s potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings …

This paper aims at characterizing poverty and vulnerability in Haiti based on a unique survey conducted in 2007 in … rural areas. Using two-level modelling of consumption/income, we assess the impact of both observable and unobservable … particular health-related shocks, have larger impact on vulnerability to poverty than covariate shocks. These results are in line …

employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … sources away from farm to nonfarm activities. Increased participation in nonfarm employment has been more pronounced among the …

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra … and total consumption inequality within families. Based on a collective model, we develop a new methodology to compute … individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face …

This presentation is about poverty and redistribution in emerging economics. It was prepared for the Asian Development … Bank’s Distinguished Speakers Program held on 25 October 2011 at the ADB Headquarters. Various types of poverty alleviation …

consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a …Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless … in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such …