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Climate vulnerability and government resource mobilization in developing countriesThere is substantial empirical literature on the impact of climate vulnerability on economic outcomes in developing countries. However, this literature is still weak on the impact of climate vulnerability on tax revenue mobilization...
Climate Vulnerability Developing countriesJournal Article
Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic: A political economy of overoptimismThe contribution of this study is to question the ‘official’ estimates of global monetary poverty up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue there is a political economy of overoptimism in the measurement of global poverty...
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 CrisisWorking Paper
Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphansStunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a well-established constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development...
Children Vulnerability StuntingResearch Brief
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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 povertySeminar
Vincenzo Salvucci presents at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique 2019 seminar seriesVincenzo Salvucci, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, will present a seminar on 13 March 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. The seminar is titled Vulnerabilidade às Calamidades Naturais: Avaliação do...
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Social capital and household vulnerability: New evidence from rural VienamUsing the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) with a panel of households present from 2008 to 2016, the study investigates the impact of social capital on household vulnerability...
Fixed effects Social capital VulnerabilityJournal Article
Welfare dynamics measurement: Two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical applicationPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Welfare dynamics Poverty VulnerabilityJournal Article
Inequality: Measurement, trends, impacts and policiesPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Developing countries Inequality PovertyWorking Paper
Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998–2012Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme...
Lesotho policy diffusion Cash transfersVideo
Invited 3Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.1
World distribution of wealth Welfare economics VulnerabilityVideo
Climate Change and Human Conflict in Sub-Saharan AfricaConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 6.1
Political economy Natural disasters Climate changeVideo
Climate Change and MigrationConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 3.1
Climate change Vulnerability Ecology