Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the … region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the … are distributed geographically within and across countries, (3) how poverty affects specific groups (e.g., women, children …

poverty in suspended countries. The analysis covers an unbalanced sample of 43 SSA countries, of which 15 SSA countries at … suspension has raised poverty in suspended countries, with countries that export non-resource products being the most adversely … affected. In addition, the AGOA suspension results in a higher poverty rate in the long-term than in the short-term. Finally …

In recent years, Bolivia has made progress in terms of poverty reduction; however, many households still live with low … incomes or face deprivations in other aspects. For this reason, this study aims to estimate the evolution of poverty, both in … and Foster (2011) methodology is employed to calculate multidimensional poverty. To estimate monetary poverty, the poverty …

prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income … important domestic trade-offs between inequality reduction and poverty alleviation. …

an accounting-based microsimulation to assess the impacts on poverty and inequality. Government measures to alleviate …

individual and family capabilities by reducing vulnerabilities and strengthening social protection. While official poverty … statistics indicate progress in poverty reduction at the aggregate level, with poverty incidence declining to 16.4 percent in the … poverty indices that complement official poverty statistics. Using data from the Family Income and Expenditures Survey, we …

association with poverty. We find that people seldom transition from one work status to another across all countries. The … India are associated with upward mobility. Moving up the job ladder is linked to the probability of reducing poverty in all … of poverty compared with a worker who does not experience such mobility, while in India, the corresponding estimate is 2 …