13/ 6
2024
Understanding the link between climate change and inequality: key Insights you should know
Virtual Event, 13/06/2024
In this webinar, Prof. Narasimha Rao will tackle these pressing questions. Drawing from his latest research, he will reveal the trade-offs (or lack thereof) between inclusive economic growth and climate outcomes, both between and within countries.
16/ 5
2024
Ending extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
Virtual Event, 16/05/2024
This webinar explores a novel strategy where poverty reduction is the product of a combination of economic growth, and consumption growth distributed among all households.
18/ 4
2024
Behind the scenes of the 'The unjust climate' report: A review of the data and tools used to measure the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women, and youth
Virtual Event, 18/04/2024
FAO's latest report, "The unjust climate," has assembled an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries across five world regions. This webinar will delve into explaining the construction and innovative features of this dataset, as well as the empirical strategies used to assess these groundbreaking impacts.
19/ 3
2024
Well-being dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies
Virtual Event, 19/03/2024
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), efforts to track poverty trends and target interventions spatially are hindered by a shortage of recurrent and sufficiently detailed data.
29/ 2
2024
A new distribution sensitive index for measuring welfare, poverty and inequality
Virtual Event, 29/02/2024
Simple welfare indices, such as mean income and poverty headcount, which are commonly used to assess progress towards development goals, lack sensitivity to inequality
16/ 11
2023
Leaving no one behind: Urban poverty traps in sub-Saharan Africa
Virtual Event, 16/11/2023
While urban population growth is seen as a major factor in reducing overall poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, new challenges have emerged like the urbanization of poverty.
10/ 10
2023
A modelling framework for computing changes in Healthy Diet Unaffordability.
Virtual Event, 10/10/2023
The affordability of a healthy diet is a pressing concern, exacerbated by recent crises like COVID-19, conflicts, and rising living costs, pushing the number of people unable to afford it to 3.1 billion in 2021.
21/ 9
2023
Are there too many farms in the world? Labor market transaction costs, machine capacities, and optimal farm size
Virtual Event, 21/09/2023
Globally, particularly in developing nations, small farms outperform slightly larger ones. This study delves into the reasons behind this trend—why the connection between farm size and productivity forms a U-shape.
6/ 6
2023
Understanding the linkages between the concept of living income and approaches to measuring poverty and well-being of smallholder farmers
Virtual Event, 06/06/2023
The presentation will delve into the similarities and distinctions between various poverty measures and the living income approach, including the Multidimensional Poverty Index, Demographic Health Survey Wealth Index, and Poverty Probability Index.
4/ 5
2023
Does hotter temperature increase poverty and inequality? Global evidence from subnational data analysis
Virtual Event, 04/05/2023
Climate change and its increasing threads have inspired a significant research on its impacts on a variety of outcomes, such as agriculture, labor productivity, among others.
3/ 3
2023
Food insecurity and poverty: a cross-country analysis using national household survey data
Virtual Event, 03/03/2023
While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight eradicating poverty and achieving food security as two specific objectives (SDGs 1 and 2), interventions aiming to address one or the other goal are often similar in policy orientation and design.
14/ 2
2023
Do standard poverty metrics poorly reflect nutritional needs? A new method for utility-consistent and nutritionally adequate food poverty lines
Virtual Event, 14/02/2023
The speakers will present an approach to estimate food poverty lines that satisfies the food group proportionality associated with healthy diet recommendations, its results using data from Myanmar and implications for inclusive economic growth strategies and nutrition-sensitive food policies and social protection.
17/ 1
2023
The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting course
Virtual Event, 17/01/2023
The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the landscape of poverty in the aftermath of an extraordinary series of shocks to the global economy. Global progress in reducing extreme poverty has virtually come to a halt. After COVID-19 dealt the...
6/ 12
2022
Do benefits of expanded midstream activities in crop value chains accrue to smallholder farmers? Evidence from Zambia
Virtual Event, 06/12/2022
The rapid expansion of food supply chains across Africa has created huge market opportunities for farmers. The rise of numerous enterprises engaged in food processing and trading in the ‘midstream’ of value chains is promising.
20/ 9
2022
Herbicide Induced Hunger? Effects of Herbicide Adoption on Ganyu Labour and food security in Central Malawi
Virtual Event, 20/09/2022
The promotion of technology adoption can have unexpected social equity implications. Bouwman, Andersson, and Giller of Wageningen University will present the results of a study on the impact of herbicide adoption on casual labour relations (ganyu) in Central Malawi.
19/ 7
2022
Decent work in global food value chain: Evidence from Senegal
Virtual Event, 19/07/2022
Anna Fabry of KU Leuven will present results from agro-industrial companies and small-scale farms in the horticultural sector of Senegal.
28/ 6
2022
Better to be indirect? Testing the accuracy and cost-savings of community leader surveys
Virtual Event, 28/06/2022
Professor Alix-Garcia will present investigations into the use of key informants as an alternative targeting method. The research finds asset and poverty indices calculated from key informants to be highly correlated with those based on data collected from households.
24/ 5
2022
The Multidimensional Poverty Index in emergency and fragile contexts
Virtual Event, 24/05/2022
In this meeting, Yeshwas Bogale (Economist, ESA) and Sophie Scharlin-Pettee (Research and Policy Manager, OPHI). He will present two recent studies to show how the Multidimensional Poverty Index can be adapted to measure poverty and guide interventions in emergency and fragile contexts, with a particular focus on intra-household inequalities
28/ 4
2022
16/ 2
2022
Why do people stay poor? Identifying poverty traps in practice
Virtual Event, 16/02/2022
Understanding what causes poverty is key to eradicating it. Poverty traps have often been indicated as a fundamental reason why many people remain poor. The idea behind poverty traps is that poor people keep engaging in low-earning occupations, not because they lack innate ability, but simply because they lack better opportunities.