Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality

• Developing countries
• Inequality
• Poverty

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality

• Welfare dynamics
• Poverty
• Vulnerability

Working Paper

South Africa’s current electricity crises have worsened, placing the country on an uncertain and turbulent economic trajectory.To identify the manufacturing sub-sectors that are most vulnerable to this crises, we use the input–output matrices for the...

• Electricity
• Crisis
• Energy

Working Paper

This working paper examines Tanzania’s social protection system amidst growing humanitarian crises driven by climate change, health epidemics, and regional conflicts. It explores the social protection needs experienced in humanitarian settings, the...

• Social protection
• Crisis
• Climate change

Blog

by Marta Furlan December 2023

As COP28 unfolds, I share new findings on the impact of climate change on human rights violations and, more specifically, on human trafficking as...

• Climate change
• Climate change mitigation
• Natural disasters

Working Paper

There 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. To enrich the...

• Climate
• Vulnerability
• Developing countries

Blog

In 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...

• COVID-19
• Global poverty
• Crisis

Journal Article

The 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. Specifically, we...

• COVID-19
• Crisis
• Global poverty

Research Brief

• Vulnerability
• Working conditions
• Wage differentials

Working Paper

This 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. We conclude there could be increases in poverty of...

• COVID-19
• Crisis
• Global poverty

Working Paper

Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a well-established constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development. This paper evaluates the relative contributions of household resources and public...

• Children
• Vulnerability
• Stunting

Working Paper

Using 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. The empirical results indicate that both commune...

• Fixed effects
• Social capital
• Vulnerability

Working Paper

Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the ‘Southern African model’, the...

• Lesotho
• policy diffusion
• Cash transfers