This paper analyzes extreme child poverty ($2.15/day poverty line) trends, as well as child poverty based on the higher international poverty lines of $3.65 and $6.85. The paper provides a trajectory of extreme child poverty (children living in extremely poor households) from 2013 to 2019 (based...

Can features extracted from high spatial resolution satellite imagery accurately estimate poverty and economic well-being The present study investigates this question by extracting both object and texture features from satellite images of Sri Lanka. These features are used to estimate poverty...

In rural Indonesia, around 60 percent of workers engage in agriculture and face regular climatic shocks that may threaten their crop production, household income, and human capital investments. Little is known about households’ ability to maintain consumption in response to these shocks. This...