role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

productivity growth and inequality. There should be more investment in the skills of people to expand the productive assets of an …

. Although the potential increase in poverty is significant, we find that compared to their pre-shock income, those who lost the … most are the moderate poor and the vulnerable to poverty. We find that the impact on poverty is more severe for urban … households. Poverty increases less for rural households and the indigenous population. Compared to Argentina, Brazil, and …

Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in … most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …

Income inequality and poverty in Nigeria are closely related. This study decomposed change in poverty in Nigeria into … Bureau of Statistics in 1998 and 2004 were used. Results show that in 2004, income inequality was higher in rural areas than … urban areas. Income poverty head count in 1998 was 40.51%, and this increased to 51.59% in 2004. However, expenditure …