Documents et rapports

North Macedonia - Systematic Country Diagnostic Update : Navigating Challenges, Embracing Opportunities (anglais)

The 2018 North Macedonia SCD evaluated the country’s economic development and recognized its impressive progress in reducing poverty and advancing shared prosperity. Between 2002 and 2018, income per capita...

The Economic Cost of Exclusion : Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics in the Labor Market in the Republic of North Macedonia (anglais)

The primary objective of this report is to estimate the economic cost of exclusion based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in the Republic of North...

The Economic Cost of Exclusion : Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics in the Labor Market in the Republic of Serbia (anglais)

The primary objective of this report is to estimate the economic cost of exclusion based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in the Republic of Serbia...

SIMLAB : A Structural Micro Simulation Tool to Analyze Distributional Impact of Policy Reforms : The Case of North Macedonia (anglais)

This report outlines the following headings: motivation, overview of SIMLAB, model, baseline results, and counterfactual policy simulations.

What Are the Poverty and Inequality Impacts of Fiscal Policy in Turkey ? (anglais)

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence...

Republic of North Macedonia : Action Plan for Recovery of Growth and Jobs (anglais)

North Macedonia has made considerable progress in recent decades, moving from lower-middle to upper-middle income status, and from a planned to a functional market economy. Despite these reforms, the domestic...

The Economic and Social Impact of COVID-19 : Poverty and Household Welfare (anglais)

Recent poverty reduction and welfare improvements are being interrupted as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis forces Western Balkan economies into recession. This note illustrates possible...

Lassoing Welfare Dynamics with Cross-Sectional Data (anglais)

This paper introduces, validates, and applies a Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator with multiple imputation by Predictive Mean Matching (LASSO-PMM) method to estimate intra-generational welfare...

What Can We (Machine) Learn About Welfare Dynamics from Cross-sectional Data? (anglais)

This paper implements a machine learning approach to estimate intra-generational economic mobility using cross-sectional data. A Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (Lasso) procedure is applied...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Costa Rica Integrated System of Household Surveys - P163431 - Sequence No : 01 (anglais)

Who escaped poverty and who was left behind ? a non-parametric approach to explore welfare dynamics using cross-sections (anglais)

This paper proposes a non-parametric adaptation of a recently developed parametric technique to produce point estimates of intra-generational economic mobility in the absence of panel data sets that follow...

Who escaped poverty and who was left behind? A non-parametric approach to explore welfare dynamics using cross-sections (anglais)

This paper proposes a non-parametric adaptation of a recently developed parametric technique to produce point estimates of intra-generational economic mobility in the absence of panel data sets that follow...

But … what is the poverty rate today? testing poverty nowcasting methods in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to assess the impact of economic crisis and shocks among the less well-off, and subsequently...

But what is the poverty rate today? : testing poverty nowcasting methods in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to assess the impact of economic crisis and shocks among the less well-off, and subsequently...

Left behind : chronic poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

Latin America and the Caribbean’s story in the 2000s was one of rapid progress for many. More than 70 million people moved out of poverty and started on the path to a better life for themselves and their...

Childhood poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : Pobreza infantil en América Latina y el Caribe (espagnol)

Following steep declines in poverty rates over the past decade, the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region reduced childhood poverty by a third and childhood extreme poverty almost by half between 2004...

Childhood poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

Following steep declines in poverty rates over the past decade, the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region reduced childhood poverty by a third and childhood extreme poverty almost by half between 2004...

Measuring poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : methodological considerations when estimating an empirical regional poverty line (anglais)

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive...

Measuring poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : methodological considerations when estimating an empirical regional poverty line (anglais)

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive...

Working to end poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : workers, jobs, and wages (anglais)

The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region achieved laudable gains in the 2000s in the fight against poverty. This was a decade of solid economic growth; substantial reduction in poverty and income...