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Methodological Approaches on How to Measure Risk of Poverty with Income and Wealth

February 6, 2023 Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation Events Past Events Ultra Poverty

Understanding Poverty Dynamics and the Impact of the Pandemic

February 24, 2022 COVID-19 India Past Events Ultra Poverty
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. EST / 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. IST via Zoom

Profiling Gendered Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa

February 21, 2022 Development Economics Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation Events Ultra Poverty
Monday, February 21st, 2022 11:00 – 12:15 p.m. ET via Zoom

Extending Multidimensional Poverty Identification: From Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles

February 14, 2022 Development Economics James Foster Past Events Ultra Poverty
Monday, February 14th, 2022 11:00 - 12:15 p.m. ET via Zoom

A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement

April 1, 2021 Development Economics Past Events Ultra Poverty
Monday, May 10, 2021 10:00 a.m. EDT via Zoom

Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor in over 100 countries

February 25, 2021 James Foster Past Events Ultra Poverty
Monday, March 1, 2021 10:00am – 11:15am via WebEx

Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth

July 6, 2020 2020 Development Economics Elira Kuka International Trade Ultra Poverty Working Papers
June 2020. Elira Kuka and Na’ama Shenhav. IIEP working paper 2020-10

Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S

August 31, 2019 2019 Barry Chiswick Development Economics Ultra Poverty Working Papers
August 2019. Barry Chiswick and Christina Houseworth. IIEP working paper 2019-12

A mHealth Voice Messaging Intervention to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Senegal

February 28, 2019 2019 Development Economics Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty
February 2019. Shauna Downs, Jessica Fanzo, Jozefina Kalaj, Joachim Sackey, and Stephen C. Smith. IIEP Working Paper 2019-6.

Should Leaders Focus on Poverty or Inequality? Ethical and Policy Perspectives

February 20, 2019 Development Economics Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation Events Economics of Ultra-Poverty Events Past Events Ultra Poverty
Lindner Commons, Elliott School of International Affairs Monday, February 25, 2019 5:00pm to 6:00pm  Co-sponsored with the Leadership, Ethics, and Practice Initiative and the Institute for International Economic Policy

Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

July 30, 2017 2015 Development Economics Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers Yao Pan
July 2017 by Yao Pan, Stephen C. Smith, and Munshi Sulaiman IIEP Working Paper 2015-11

How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomised Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda

January 31, 2017 2017 Development Economics Ram Fishman Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers No Comments
January 2017 by Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University), Vida Bobić (George Washington University), Ram Fishman (Tel Aviv University), & Munshi Sulaiman (Save the Children) IIEP Working Paper 2017-1

The Two Fragilities: Vulnerability to Conflict, Environmental Stress, and their Interactions as Challenges to Ending Poverty: A Policy Analysis

March 1, 2016 2016 Climate Adaptation Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by Stephen Smith (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-1

Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment

November 30, 2015 2015 Sarah Baird Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), Joan Hamory Hicks (UC-Berkeley, CEGA), Michael Kremer (Harvard University, NBER), and Edward Miguel (UC-Berkeley, NBER) IIEP Working Paper 2015-16

Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty

August 31, 2015 2015 Development Economics James Foster Stephen C. Smith Tony Castleman Ultra Poverty Working Papers
August 2015 by Tony Castleman, James Foster, and Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-10

Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

October 8, 2013 Development Economics Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation Events Economics of Ultra-Poverty Events Past Events Ultra Poverty

Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Current Research and Needs from Future Research

June 30, 2012 2012 Arun Malik Climate Adaptation Development Economics Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Arun S. Malik, IIEP and GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2012-8

Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh

June 30, 2012 2009 Development Economics Shahe Emran Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
June 2012 by Stephen Smith & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-6

The Scope of NGOs and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty

June 30, 2012 2012 Development Economics Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2012-7

Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India

May 31, 2012 2012 Climate Adaptation Development Economics Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
May 2012 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Saudamini Das, University of Delhi) IIEP Working Paper 2012-6

Poverty Measurement with Ordinal Data

September 30, 2011 2011 Chrysanthi Hatzimasoura Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by Chrysanthi Hatzimasoura IIEP Working Paper 2011-16

Where Did Identification Go?

September 30, 2011 2011 James Foster Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-20

What Kind of Poverty Trap? An Investigation of Single and Multidimensional Traps With Ethiopian Household Panel Data

June 30, 2011 2010 Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2010-4

Multidimensional Poverty and Interlocking Poverty Traps: Framework and Application to Ethiopian Household Panel Data

June 30, 2011 2011 Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2011-4

Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

May 31, 2011 2011 James Foster Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-18

Polarization and the Decline of the Middle Class: Canada and the U.S.

November 30, 2010 2010 James Foster Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-21

The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later

April 30, 2010 2010 James Foster Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-14

Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data

April 30, 2010 2011 Development Economics Stephen C. Smith Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2011-1 Updated 2011

On Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty

March 31, 2010 2010 James Foster Ultra Poverty Working Papers
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-13
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