role of nontraditional delivery models, for example, branchless banking, and actors, for example, nonbank lending …

. Comparative analysis using the World Bank Group’s Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database 2017 indicates that although …

This paper uses a unique data set with 1.1 million customer transactions from a microfinance institution in the … Democratic Republic of Congo from 2017 to 2018. The paper provides evidence of assortative gender matching in agent banking …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a … 2014-15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …

methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

Using World Bank PovcalNet data from 1974-2018 for 135 countries, this paper approximates the identity that links … growth in mean incomes and changes in the distribution of relative incomes to reductions in absolute poverty, and, in turn …, examines the role of income inequality for poverty reduction. The analysis finds that the assumption that income is log …