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 …

, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme … poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of …

partially compensate many losers from the crisis, and reduced extreme poverty …

of inclusive growth across the region, and particularly with how individuals worked their way out of poverty. The paper … and poverty. The main finding is that job quality across the region began to increase since 2004, coupled with the … dimensions of job quality that are best correlated with not living in poverty …