Kimberly Bolch (@kbbolch) 's Twitter Profile
Kimberly Bolch

@kbbolch

Economist and Special Assistant to the Global Director for Poverty and Equity @WorldBank. Previously @UniofOxford and @UNDP. All views my own.

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Ellora Derenoncourt (@ederenoncourt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 What an incredible honor! The work continues. Apply here to join our team studying regional patterns and drivers of racial wealth inequality: tinyurl.com/y68st2p8

Max Roser (@maxcroser) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have a full-time position available for a writer at Our World in Data! These three aspects would make this a dream job for me: • You will be supported by a friendly and very well-functioning team. • You have a position that asks you to write about a wide range of important

Janet Gornick (@janetgornick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tax Day. A good day to note that US taxes (income taxes & social insurance contributions) push many low-income households into poverty. New paper by me, David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) Ive Marx & Zach Parolin reports that US taxes push a larger % of adults into poverty than do several other countries.

David Evans (@daveevansphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Can you predict chronic poverty with a single, cross sectional survey? @KbBolch, Luis Felipe López-Calva, & Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez provide evidence from three Latin American countries that you can. Published onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Open access ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c…

Can you predict chronic poverty with a single, cross sectional survey? @KbBolch, <a href="/LFLopezCalva/">Luis Felipe LĂłpez-Calva</a>, &amp; <a href="/eduardoortizj/">Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez</a> provide evidence from three Latin American countries that you can.

Published onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Open access ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c…
Richard Blundell (@r_blundell_ucl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review Institute for Fiscal Studies The whole evidence volume of the Review, with clickable links to the remarkable set of commissioned articles across the many dimensions of inequality, now published open access by OUP, follow the link at ifs.org.uk/inequality/dir…

Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review <a href="/TheIFS/">Institute for Fiscal Studies</a> The whole evidence volume of the Review, with clickable links to the remarkable set of commissioned articles across the many dimensions of inequality, now published open access by OUP, follow the link at ifs.org.uk/inequality/dir…
Kimberly Bolch (@kbbolch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢Applications open today! The World Bank has relaunched its Junior Professional Associates (JPA) program. This is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates looking to start a career in international development. Apply before August 9: worldbank.org/en/about/caree…

Rachel Glennerster (@rglenner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Calling researchers interested in combining research & policy impact! We Center for Global Development are hiring Fellows & Senior Fellows based in DC or London. Open across fields within development & global public goods including health, education, agriculture, climate. …erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/ZrMvIhUC…

Luis Felipe LĂłpez-Calva (@lflopezcalva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How can we implement integrated policy responses for multidimensional #poverty reduction? A key challenge is understanding how the different dimensions are interlinked and how they jointly evolve over time. In my recently published World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

How can we implement integrated policy responses for multidimensional #poverty reduction?   

A key challenge is understanding how the different dimensions are interlinked and how they jointly evolve over time.  

In my recently published <a href="/WorldBank/">World Bank</a> Policy Research Working Paper
Kimberly Bolch (@kbbolch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don't miss this public lecture from Joshua Blumenstock at World Bank on Sept 16. The UC Berkeley Global Policy Lab is leading innovative research on using mobile phone data, satellite imaging, & machine learning to monitor & map #poverty. Event livestream: wrld.bg/KKWN50Tes2N

Kimberly Bolch (@kbbolch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great opportunity to learn about the findings from the latest UN Development Human Development Report and hear from an excellent line up of speakers about what this means for international cooperation and collective action going forward. Event livestream: bit.ly/3TIVQyf

Christoph Lakner (@christophlakner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please join us tomorrow for the launch of our new report and numbers - in person for World Bank staff and online for everyone else. (This has essentially been the last 10 months of my life! Luckily, Maria Eugenia and I had a brilliant team!)

Kimberly Bolch (@kbbolch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Interested in the role of the private sector in driving progress to end poverty on a livable planet? Don’t miss this great opportunity to work with the fantastic research team at the IFC! 👉 bit.ly/3C13Ep0

Almudena Fernandez (@almudenaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

En el #ForoMinisterial2024 presenté nuestra investigación conjunta con Kimberly Bolch, Luis Felipe López-Calva de World Bank y V. Stojkoski. Tomamos el IPM como pto de partida y usamos complejidad económica para analizar cómo maximizar el impacto de la política pública en la reducción de pobreza

En el #ForoMinisterial2024 presenté nuestra investigación conjunta con <a href="/kbbolch/">Kimberly Bolch</a>, <a href="/LFLopezCalva/">Luis Felipe López-Calva</a> de <a href="/WorldBank/">World Bank</a> y V. Stojkoski. Tomamos el IPM como pto de partida y usamos complejidad económica para analizar cómo maximizar el impacto de la política pública en la reducción de pobreza
Kimberly Bolch (@kbbolch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It was a pleasure to participate in the #ForoMinisterial2024 to discuss innovative approaches on #data for #poverty eradication and to share our work at World Bank Poverty on real-time monitoring of welfare. Thank you to ONU Desarrollo, CEPAL, & #Barbados government for the invitation!

It was a pleasure to participate in the #ForoMinisterial2024 to discuss innovative approaches on #data for #poverty eradication and to share our work at <a href="/WBG_Poverty/">World Bank Poverty</a> on real-time monitoring of welfare.

Thank you to <a href="/pnud/">ONU Desarrollo</a>, <a href="/cepal_onu/">CEPAL</a>, &amp; #Barbados government for the invitation!
Michelle Muschett (@michmuschett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To bring poverty back at the center of public debate on development, Almudena Fernandez Kimberly Bolch Francisco Espinosa Roberto Angulo Sabina Alkire shared with LAC Ministers innovative policy approaches to accelerate poverty reduction as a precondition to build a resilient human development.

To bring poverty back at the center of public debate on development, <a href="/almudenaf/">Almudena Fernandez</a> <a href="/kbbolch/">Kimberly Bolch</a> <a href="/EspinosaFranc/">Francisco Espinosa</a> <a href="/RobertoAnguloS/">Roberto Angulo</a> <a href="/sabina_alkire/">Sabina Alkire</a> shared with LAC Ministers innovative policy approaches to accelerate poverty reduction as a precondition to build a resilient human development.
Luis Felipe LĂłpez-Calva (@lflopezcalva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our new blog is out! Poverty isn’t just about a lack of income—it’s a complex web of interconnected deprivations across dimensions like health, education, and housing conditions. In this World Bank blog post with V, Kimberly Bolch, and Almudena Fernandez, we discuss how network

Our new blog is out!

Poverty isn’t just about a lack of income—it’s a complex web of interconnected deprivations across dimensions like health, education, and housing conditions. In this <a href="/WorldBank/">World Bank</a> blog post with <a href="/ViktorStojkoski/">V</a>, <a href="/kbbolch/">Kimberly Bolch</a>, and <a href="/almudenaf/">Almudena Fernandez</a>, we discuss how network
Chris Barrett (@cbb2cornell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please share ... CIDER development economics pre-doctoral fellows program now accepting applications for July 2025 start date. Come work with me, Jenny Aker, Heather Schofield,Johannes Haushofer, Joanna Upton, Martina Occelli, John Hoddinott, and perhaps more! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Ecineq (@ecineq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢Call for papers📢 11th #ECINEQ Conference July 9-11, 2025 - Washington DC Co-hosted by World Bank Group and GW University. Keynote speakers: Daron Acemoglu Garance Genicot Debraj Ray Nora Lustig Deadline for submission: February 15, 2025. More info here: ecineq.org/eleventh-ecine…

David Evans (@daveevansphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Inter-American Development Bank is forming a poverty group, with multiple staff positions. Lead Specialist jobs.iadb.org/job/Economics-… Specialist jobs.iadb.org/job/Economics-… Great opportunity to help shape the organization's operational & analytical work around poverty reduction.

Almudena Fernandez (@almudenaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Acompáñame junto a, Kimberly Bolch , César A. Hidalgo, Luis Felipe López-Calva y otros expertos a explorar patrones de crecimiento, pobreza y resiliencia, y su impacto en el diseño de políticas públicas. 📅 05/05, 9:00 a. m. ET Evento en Inglés 🔗 Inscríbete: go.undp.org/UJZ