
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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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

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.

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…


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…


📢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…

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…

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


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

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



En el #ForoMinisterial2024 presentĂ© nuestra investigaciĂłn conjunta con Kimberly Bolch, Luis Felipe LĂłpez-Calva de World Bank y V. Stojkoski. Tomamos el IPM como pto de partida y usamos complejidad econĂłmica para analizar cĂłmo maximizar el impacto de la polĂtica pĂşblica en la reducciĂłn de pobreza


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!


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.


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


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…

📢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…

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.

Acompáñame junto a, Kimberly Bolch , CĂ©sar A. Hidalgo, Luis Felipe LĂłpez-Calva y otros expertos a explorar patrones de crecimiento, pobreza y resiliencia, y su impacto en el diseño de polĂticas pĂşblicas. đź“… 05/05, 9:00 a. m. ET Evento en InglĂ©s đź”— InscrĂbete: go.undp.org/UJZ