poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …

are increasing their activities in regions where poverty is predominant. In 2018, Nigeria attained an unenviable position … of being the country with the highest number of persons living in extreme poverty in terms of poverty count, overtaking … India. However, aggregate national level data often hide the huge disparity in the poverty rates at the sub-national (state …

Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …

. Poverty in rural areas is both more prevalent and more acute than in urban areas - about 80 per cent of the world's extremely …

This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school … the 15+ in rural areas. Our findings highlight the importance of integrating different anti-poverty measures to reduce …

Our appreciation of global poverty almost exclusively relies on the official statistics published by the World Bank …. Yet, these official global poverty estimates, based on the standard dollar-a-day approach, fall short in their prime … methodological problem of the method, that is the idea that a single poverty line can be used for all country and all years …

issues that are raised from this standard practice in global poverty measurement. …