The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic risks wiping out years of progress made in reducing global poverty. In this paper, we … explore to what extent financial inclusion could help mitigate the increase in poverty using cross-country data across 79 low …, particularly financial outreach, is a key driver of poverty reduction in these countries. This effect is not direct, but indirect …

poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data …This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …