that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … by proposing vulnerability lines that can be straightforwardly estimated with panel or cross-sectional household survey … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis …

This study explores the short-run transitions between poverty, vulnerability, and middle class, using synthetic panels …

This study explores the short-run transitions between poverty, vulnerability, and middle class, using synthetic panels …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3 to 29.7 % of the population). In this … 10, and 14 % of those in the middle class experience poverty at least once over a 10-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91 and 50 % of extreme and moderate poverty, respectively). Differences between rural …

The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the …

) on poverty in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). In achieving this, a balanced panel of 30 SSA countries from 1996 to 2018 was … explored using fixed-effect instrumental regression, fixed effect panel threshold model, and the heterogenous Granger … incidence and intensity of poverty. (2) the impact of FDI is contingent on the absorptive capacity of the host country. The …

This paper uses US state panel data to explore the relationship between the share of income received by affluent …