examines the impacts -- half a century later -- of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern … of upward mobility out of poverty and vulnerability into the middle class, with a noticeable acceleration between 2009 …

global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While … studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … chronic poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic …