This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held …

unbanked worldwide (Alliance for Financial Inclusion, 2014). However, the world is not only giving special attention to the …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …