Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …

poverty, multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and child deprivation index (CDI). The results indicate that BISP cash … households are until facing high rates of poverty as the majority of them have not been transited out of poverty. No sustained …