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Social mobility in the Global South – beyond poverty and inequality reductionA new book, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, produced by UNU-WIDER and edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen and published by Oxford University Press offers students, researchers, and...
Seminar
CEEG Seminar Series: A spatial analysis of poverty in MozambiqueOn Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00-13:00 (UTC+2), Isa Chiconela, independent researcher, will present her recent study in progress entitled 'Spatial analysis of poverty in Mozambique'. The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar Series , organized...
In the media
Above or below the poverty line – research on shifts in global poverty picked up by development media
COVID-19 Global poverty Precarity Seminar
CEEG Seminar Series: The economic recession in MozambiqueOn Wednesday 23 February 2022, Michael Sambo, Researcher at IESE , will present a recent study entitled The economic recession in Mozambique: Was it COVID-19? – A look from the external sector . The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar Series...
Journal Article
Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic: A political economy of overoptimismTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW. The contribution of this study is to question the ‘official’ estimates of global monetary poverty up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic...
COVID-19 Crisis Global povertyBlog
Above or below the poverty line: Three key questions for understanding shifts in global povertyIn 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted to middle-income countries (for example here , here , and here )...
COVID-19 Global poverty CrisisJournal Article
COVID-19 and global poverty: Are LDCs being left behind?The study paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on global poverty in the light of IMF’s growth forecasts...
COVID-19 Global poverty Least Developed CountriesBlog
Why all countries should contribute to ending global poverty
In 1969, richer countries agreed to commit 0.7% of their gross national income to international development aid...
Global poverty Aid policyNews
Press release: COVID-19 could drive global poverty back over one billion people as the world’s poorest face up to US$500 million per day in lost incomeIn dramatic new numbers researchers estimate that extreme poverty could spike as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the day the postponed meeting of the world’s richest nations, the G7, should have finished. The researchers are now calling...
COVID-19 Global poverty SDG1Blog
Poverty and the pandemic in the Pacific
COVID-19 has had a far greater economic impact than health impact on Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Pacific...
COVID-19 Pandemic Global povertyBlog
The end of poverty postponed?: Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be realityThe COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate headlines as the death toll rises and economies falter...
COVID-19 Global poverty Poverty and consumptionWorking Paper
Precarity and the pandemic: COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countriesThis paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty...
COVID-19 Crisis Global povertyWorking Paper
COVID-19 and global poverty: Are LDCs being left behind?This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF’s April 2020 growth forecasts...
COVID-19 Global poverty Least Developed CountriesWorking Paper
Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global povertyIn this paper we make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption...
Global poverty COVID-19 SDGsBlog
South Asia: how to ensure progress on reducing poverty isn't reversed by coronavirusSouth Asia accounted for nearly two-fifths of the world’s poor, nearly half of the world’s malnourished children and was home to the largest number of stunted children in 2015...
COVID-19 Global poverty