program in Bangladesh. The results show access to local politicians is a significant determinant of participation, and can … local politicians, public works aiming to maximize their impact on poverty should rely on an objective and transparent …

two rounds of the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey to decompose the micro-determinants of poverty …The poor in Bangladesh are more likely to belong to households with a larger number of dependents and lower education … poverty profile for 2005 is similar to the profile in the mid-1980s and hence at first glance it would appear that little has …

"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch … Pitt and Khandker (1998; henceforth PK) article "The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does …

in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches … different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …

This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It … paper reviews the micro-level evidence of disaster impacts on the livelihoods of the poorest households. The evidence … disasters. It discusses detrimental long-term consequences for the income and welfare of the poor and the presence of poverty …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

In the absence of household level data on participation in public programs, spending allocations and poverty measures …