crop prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

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 on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two different scenarios for its … poverty years and 4.3 million years of life lost across 150 countries. The ratio of PYs to LYs is very large in most countries …

adversely affect the welfare of most Congolese households. To date, research has not yet examined the poverty and distributional …-added tax leads to a worsening of the food poverty headcount by approximately 1.2 percentage points …

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages-leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow the … pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

at home. In the absence of remittance income, the poverty rate in Uzbekistan (measured at 3.2 dollar/day purchasing power …

substantial changes in household size and composition, with a net movement of primarily school-age children from larger ineligible … declined by four percentage points (or 15 percent) within six months of program rollout, and the poverty headcount at the …