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ABSTRACT: This study employs Monte Carlo simulation methods to assess the potential impact of household and local enterprise development on poverty alleviation across Uganda’s diverse regional ...

ABSTRACT: This study employs Monte Carlo simulation methods to assess the potential impact of household and local enterprise development on poverty alleviation across Uganda’s diverse regional ...

To monitor the evolution of household living conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank conducted COVID-19 High-Frequency Phone Surveys in around 80 countries. Phone surveys are cheap and ...

How can researchers measure poverty and understand local development needs in places where conventional data collection is difficult or impossible? To overcome this obstacle, Rutgers researchers have ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they will not collect food insecurity data for 2025. The timing could not be worse. Just as cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...