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People fleeing for their lives from war & persecution should be treated as we would hope to be treated, if we were them. Please watch & share this film if you agree. #NotACriminal #TogetherWithRefugees with @RefugeeCouncil

We’ve become used to plummeting global poverty as a key sign of human progress. But going forward it will be harder because of worsening macro conditions and because so much of it is in fragile regions such as northern Nigeria, DRC, the Horn, Sahel etc. 1/2

Contrasting #socialprotection in higher-income countries (relative to lower income ones): - more effective mitigation of Covid #poverty - more direct & progressive taxes - more #cashtransfers & less subsidies Super report by Ruth Hill & colleagues! openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/hand…

According to the World Bank's Poverty & Shared Prosperity Report, #COVID19 & the War in Ukraine have pushed 70 million people into poverty. Now is the time for all of us to step up & bolster global efforts to ensure opportunity & equity for all bit.ly/3CfV9CS

#COVID19 dealt the biggest setback to global poverty reduction in decades & the war in Ukraine is making matters even worse. How can countries get back on track? If you’re interested in development, the new #PSPR report is required reading! worldbank.org/poverty-and-sh…

Great thread. Thanks Justin! And to the fantastic et al: Christoph Lakner Marta Schoch Nishant Yonzan Daniel Mahler Samuel Tetteh-Baah @Psyche_april Ben Brunckhorst, Benoit Decerf, Uche Ekhator, Matt Wai-Poi @pierrebachas Mariano Sosa, Mahvish Shaukat, Katy Bergstrom Jessica Adler

New blog nowcasting global poverty until 2022 (with Nishant Yonzan & Daniel Mahler). 2 years after the pandemic, we have had little success in wiping out the historic increase in poverty. blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/globa… documents.worldbank.org/en/publication… wrld.bg/WCC350Lb13C #PSPR

The poorest households in the world are net contributors to the government purse rather than net beneficiaries. Social protection delivery solutions are needed to reverse this perverse impact of fiscal policy. blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttal… via @worldbank

In case anyone wonders, still doing the research day job, with some my favourite colleagues. And of this piece I am particularly proud… We won a prize: Innovative Policy Research award by International Economic Association International Economic Association IEA and Asian Development Bank Asian Development Bank

🎉Episode 7⃣of the CSAE Research #Podcasts series is here! 🎙️Ben Brunckhorst, Stefan Dercon, Ruth Hill, & Ashley Pople discuss the project 'Anticipatory Cash Transfers in Climate Disaster Response' in relation to floods in Bangladesh. 🎧csae.ox.ac.uk/podcast-antici…

After a long journey, our paper "Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment" is now finally available online in the Review of Economics and Statistics! Read here: doi.org/10.1162/rest_a…

Very happy to see this policy innovation highlighted by The New York Times ! With a nice summary of the impact results we documented (Stefan Dercon Ashley Pople Ben Brunckhorst). Check it out.

#ClimateAction is needed and urgent. There are, however, some important tradeoffs to note in specific #policy areas with key implications for how they are prioritized. These are trade-offs both across time and across people at one point in time. The valuation of any policy will

New blog and brief highlighting the complementarities and tradeoffs in addressing poverty and climate change. Comments welcome as we continue work in this area. blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttal…

Our new Geospatial Poverty Portal is the World Bank’s repository for international #poverty, #inequality & multidimensional poverty data across countries at the subnational level, along w/ the latest small area estimation guidelines, techniques & datasets. wrld.bg/9sZJ50PMPzi

Climate action and #inequality are fundamentally linked. Despite 4,500 climate change #policies over the last 3 decades, many people remain unsure how to make the changes we need to make a difference. But some policies have led to real action and real results, for example on