This paper examines the effect of climate-induced shocks on multidimensional poverty in Ethiopia using data from the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) collected under the Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) of the World Bank. The empirical strategy...

The objective of social protection policies is to help families, individuals and communities with the prevention and mitigation of social and economic risks. Social protection policies are a range of public interventions to support the poor and vulnerable, and assist families, individuals and...

This paper describes an analysis of the impact that higher energy tariffs would have on households in the Kyrgyz Republic using micro-data from the 2009 Kyrgyz Integrated Household Survey. This analysis was conducted to determine which households would be most affected by higher energy tariffs...

The Kyrgyz Republic has enjoyed remarkable success in poverty reduction in recent years. Poverty headcounts were halved between 2005 (63.9 per cent) and 2008 (31.3 per cent), before they slightly increased again to 33.7 per cent (2010). However, these aggregate figures mask individual or...

This paper seeks to develop a methodology towards measuring multidimensional vulnerability in post conflict environments. Vulnerability is defined as the combination of lack of entitlements and exposure to risks (Ahmed & Gassmann, 2009). The occurrence of a shock has varying impact on...

Child poverty can be measured using approaches that aim to make cross-country comparisons on a regional or global scale or to capture a country's specific poverty context. The first can be referred to as a global approach and the second as a country-specific approach. These underlying rationales...