violent conflict in Nepal. They find that conflict intensity is significantly higher in places with greater poverty and lower …

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 …

countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 … percent reduction in poverty and a 28 percent increase in the size of the middle class. However, chronic poverty remains high …

the south west region of Guatemala, which used mobile phone data to predict observed poverty rates. Its findings indicate … that CDR-based research methods have the potential to replicate the poverty estimates obtained from traditional forms of … predicting urban and total poverty in Guatemala more accurately than rural poverty. Moreover, although the poverty estimates …

into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth of the middle class, and lower … income growth. The countries of South America outperformed Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in poverty reduction … during the decade up to 2012. But since then, a new story has emerged. In recent years, poverty reduction has been …

policy in Chile in 2013. Four results are indicative of an overall positive net effect of fiscal interventions on poverty and … inequality. First, subsidies exert a positive, yet modest effect on poverty and inequality, whereas direct transfers are … progressive, equalizing, and reduce the poverty headcount by 4 to 5 percentage points, depending on the poverty line used. Second …