In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and … nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …

five sets of constraints that may hinder the adoption and effective usage of savings products and services by the poor …

private sectors, given their importance in the context of low-income countries. In line with previous work, we find that age …

allocate an endowment to a private or to a public account. In our treatments, we first manipulate the degree of participation …) set in order to promote participation. The results show that leader guidance and participatory incentives significantly …

credible information about each other's HIV status. Using random variation in participation in couples' testing, this study …

poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … to social policy. But given the strong correlation in Brazil between ethnicity and income, social protection policies …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … shock of the lockdown was more severe for the bottom of the income distribution, but it experienced a faster recovery. On …