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Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality ? An Updated Review (anglais)

This paper offers an updated and comprehensive review of recent studies on the impact of climate change, particularly global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources...

Official Documents- Letter Agreement for STARS Grant TF0B5418 parallel to TF0B5417 (anglais)

Poverty Dynamics and Mobility in Ethiopia : Evidence from the First Three Rounds of the Socioeconomic Survey (anglais)

The purposes of this chapter are twofold: to shed some light on the dynamics of welfare in Ethiopia between 2012 and 2016, and to profile the chronic, transitory and never poor parts of the population...

The Important Role of Equivalence Scales : Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in the Russian Federation (anglais)

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments...

A methodology to assess indicative costs of risk financing strategies for scaling up Ethiopia's productive safety net programme (anglais)

This paper proposes and illustrates a methodology to assess the economic cost of the sovereign risk finance instruments available to the Government of Ethiopia and its development partners for financing...

Once Poor Always Poor? : Exploring Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia (anglais)

Many studies assessing poverty reduction use repeated cross-sectional data to track trends over time at the national level. However, panel data allows us to track individuals over time, leading to a better...

The World Bank research observer 17 (2) (anglais)

Income risk, coping strategies, and safety nets; by Stefan Dercon. The gender implications of public sector downsizing: the reform program of Vietnam; by Martin Rama. Trade, foreign direct investment...

Income risk, coping strategies, and safety nets (anglais)

Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal...

Household income dynamics in rural China (anglais)

Theoretical work has shown that nonlinear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and distribution-dependent growth. If this is true, the potential implications for policy are dramatic: effective...

Overcoming poverty in China (anglais)

This paper has focused on more targeted micro interventions to fight poverty. But the battle against poverty is not a skirmish off to one flank; instead, it must be at the heart of the campaign for development...

Determinants of transient and chronic poverty : evidence from rural China (anglais)

Are the determinants of chronic and transient poverty different? Do policies that reduce transient poverty also reduce chronic poverty? The authors decompose measures of household poverty into chronic...

Protecting the poor during economic transition : focus on Hungary (anglais)

As Hungary institutes a market economy, it presents a model for how a previously centralized state has to rethink dealing with poverty. Given the budget constraints and economic volatility inevitably accompanying...

Transient poverty in rural China (anglais)

The authors study transient poverty in a six-year panel dataset for a sample of 5,000 households in post-reform rural China. Half of the mean squared poverty gap is transient, in that it is directly attributable...

The social dimensions of adjustment : a general assessment (anglais)

Inevitable as structural adjustment has been, and successful as it might be, the engagement with poverty in Africa is going to be a long-term affair. If growth does not restart, the reverse trickle-down...