This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression-techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the impact on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

headed by men. It analyzes the correlates of consumption, shock exposure, and severity, as well as vulnerability to poverty … suggest that in Thailand single female-headed households are less vulnerable to poverty than households headed by men. However …, in Vietnam these households are particularly poor and vulnerable to poverty; we show that this is mostly due to their …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

poverty and downside risk. Using a unique panel data set of over 4000 rural households in both countries, we find that female … households are less vulnerable to poverty and not worse off in terms of vulnerability to perceived downside risk. …

High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central … economic affairs use these new approaches to examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the ability of … techniques to analyze the regional dynamics of poverty and inequality in Peru and Brazil, considering whether there are spatial …