The objective of measuring poverty is usually to make comparisons over time or between two or more groups. Common statistical inference methods are used to determine whether an apparent difference in measured poverty is statistically significant. Studies of relative poverty have long recognized...

Introduction -- International and Domestic Leadership for Fulfilling Carbon Neutrality in Emerging Economies: Comparative Evidence from China and India -- Building a Green Silk Road under the Trend of Global Carbon Neutrality: China's Path Choice -- Risk Challenges and Path Options for Realizing...

As the South African economy emerges from the downturn induced by COVID-19, policy makers are concerned with recovery, reconstruction, and transformation. This paper focuses on the recovery from the severely depressed levels of economic activity that occurred in April 2020. However, before...

This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks. We review different modelling strategies and argue that, given the nature of the bottom-up recession caused by the pandemic/lockdowns, simulation models of the shocks should be...