João Pedro Azevedo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6360701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | João Pedro Azevedo |
| GIVEN NAMES | João Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Azevedo |
| SIGNATURE | AZEVEDO J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3844-215X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sexualized Drug Use Among Sexually and Gender Diverse Adolescents in Brazil
Sexualized drug use (SDU) is a known phenomenon with significant implications for HIV vulnerability. Chemsex, a specific subset of SDU, involves the use of substances such as GHB/GBL, mephedrone, or methamphetamine to facilitate sexual activity. This study investigated factors associated with SDU among sexual and gender diverse adolescents (SGDa) in Brazil. This study used data from the PrEP15-19 project, a cohort investigating the implementation…
Covid-19 school closures, learning losses and intergenerational mobility
The paper investigates the longer-term inequality implications of COVID-19 by examining the ability of children from different backgrounds to engage in continued learning throughout the pandemic, and their implications for intergenerational mobility in education. The analysis builds on data from the Global Database of Intergenerational Mobility, country-specific learning loss simulation models using weekly school closure information from February…
Covid-19 School Closures, Learning Losses and Intergenerational Mobility
The paper presents a first global investigation of the longer-term inequality implications of COVID-19 by examining the effect of school closures on the ability of children from different countries and backgrounds to engage in continued learning throughout the pandemic, and their implications for intergenerational mobility in education. The analysis builds on the data from the Global Database of Intergenerational Mobility, country-specific result…
Measuring Early Childhood Development Among 4–6 Year Olds
The last 15 years have seen an explosion of measurement tools for assessing the development of young children in low- and middle- income countries. This paper builds on and contributes to that literature by identifying a core set of caregiver-report items and a core set of direct assessment items that measure key developmental domains for children aged 4–6 (48–83 months) and that demonstrate adequate psychometric properties across diverse context…
A New Profile of the Global Poor
This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural and young; 80% of the extreme poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme…
A New Profile of the Global Poor
What are the Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Host Community Welfare in Turkey? A Subnational Poverty Analysis
In recent years, Turkey has been host to more than two million Syrians seeking refuge. Initially concentrated in the southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many questions from policy makers regarding the impact of the population of Syrians Under Temporary Protection on the host community. This paper examines the impact of migrants on regional host communities from a poverty perspective. The paper does no…
Who are the Poor in the Developing World
This paper presents a new demographic \n profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those \n living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per \n day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 \n developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural \n and young; 80 percent of the extreme poor and 75 percent of \n the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45 percent of \n the extreme poor are children younger than 1…
Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity in Tajikistan
Tajikistan was one of the fastest growing countries in the Europe and Central Asia region during the last decade. The economic growth was widely shared by the population and as a result poverty (measured by the national poverty line) declined from 73 percent in 2003 to 47 percent in 2009 accompanied by falling inequality. Consumption growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population -- a measure of shared prosperity proposed by the World Bank- wa…
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction from changes in individual and household characteristics, including changes in the sectoral, occupationa…
Pathways to the Middle Class in Turkey
Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent (respectively, defined using the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia regional poverty lines of 2.5 and 5 USD/PPP). Most of this poverty reduction (89 percent) has be…
From Noise to Signal
In the mid-2000s, poverty measurement in \n Colombia was at a standstill. A dated poverty measurement \n methodology was clashing with improvements in the national \n household survey system. As a result, official poverty rates \n showed volatile trends, and a weak communication strategy \n produced an unconvincing storyline, which further resulted \n in the rapid deterioration of indicator credibility. This \n happened during a period of high an…
Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach
Demographics, labor income, public \n transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most \n to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual \n simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor \n income has made to the observed changes in poverty over the \n past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced \n substantial declines in poverty. In contrast to methods that \n focus on aggregate summary statistic…
Decomposing the Recent Inequality Decline in Latin America
Over the past decade, 12 of 14 Latin American countries have experienced a reduction in inequality. Based on a series of counterfactual simulations, the observed changes in inequality are decomposed in order to identify the main determinants of inequality. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted in this paper generates counterfactual distributions, so that the analysis can account for changes related …
Fifteen Years of Inequality in Latin America
Household income inequality has declined in Latin America in the past decades, contributing significantly to poverty reduction in the region. Although available evidence shows that changes in the labor income are among the main factors behind these inequality trends, few studies have analyzed more closely the labor market dynamics that have led to a decline in total income inequality in some countries, but also to an increase in others. Using hou…
When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction
Improvement in labor market conditions \n has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty \n success stories observed in the last decade, that is the \n primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by \n income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest \n contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 \n countries where poverty increased substantially. In 10 of \n these countries, labor income explained more than…
Nafta and the loss of U.S. market share by Brazil, 1992-2001
This article quantifies Brazil’s loss of U.S. market share to Mexico between 1992 and 2001 as a result of the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). An expanded version of the constant market share model was used to calculate gains and losses in the competitiveness of Brazilian exports to the United States, by product and by competitor, for subperiods between 1992 and 2001. The model showed Mexico to be the country t…
A New Profile of the Global Poor
Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
Nafta and the loss of U.S. market share by Brazil, 1992-2001
This article quantifies Brazil’s loss of U.S. market share to Mexico between 1992 and 2001 as a result of the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). An expanded version of the constant market share model was used to calculate gains and losses in the competitiveness of Brazilian exports to the United States, by product and by competitor, for subperiods between 1992 and 2001. The model showed Mexico to be the country t…
Nafta and the loss of U.S. market share by Brazil, 1992-2001
This article quantifies Brazil’s loss of U.S. market share to Mexico between 1992 and 2001 as a result of the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). An expanded version of the constant market share model was used to calculate gains and losses in the competitiveness of Brazilian exports to the United States, by product and by competitor, for subperiods between 1992 and 2001. The model showed Mexico to be the country t…
When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction
Improvement in labor market conditions \n has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty \n success stories observed in the last decade, that is the \n primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by \n income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest \n contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 \n countries where poverty increased substantially. In 10 of \n these countries, labor income explained more than…
From Noise to Signal
In the mid-2000s, poverty measurement in \n Colombia was at a standstill. A dated poverty measurement \n methodology was clashing with improvements in the national \n household survey system. As a result, official poverty rates \n showed volatile trends, and a weak communication strategy \n produced an unconvincing storyline, which further resulted \n in the rapid deterioration of indicator credibility. This \n happened during a period of high an…
Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach
Demographics, labor income, public \n transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most \n to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual \n simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor \n income has made to the observed changes in poverty over the \n past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced \n substantial declines in poverty. In contrast to methods that \n focus on aggregate summary statistic…
Decomposing the Recent Inequality Decline in Latin America
Over the past decade, 12 of 14 Latin American countries have experienced a reduction in inequality. Based on a series of counterfactual simulations, the observed changes in inequality are decomposed in order to identify the main determinants of inequality. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted in this paper generates counterfactual distributions, so that the analysis can account for changes related …
Fifteen Years of Inequality in Latin America
Household income inequality has declined in Latin America in the past decades, contributing significantly to poverty reduction in the region. Although available evidence shows that changes in the labor income are among the main factors behind these inequality trends, few studies have analyzed more closely the labor market dynamics that have led to a decline in total income inequality in some countries, but also to an increase in others. Using hou…
Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity in Tajikistan
Tajikistan was one of the fastest growing countries in the Europe and Central Asia region during the last decade. The economic growth was widely shared by the population and as a result poverty (measured by the national poverty line) declined from 73 percent in 2003 to 47 percent in 2009 accompanied by falling inequality. Consumption growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population -- a measure of shared prosperity proposed by the World Bank- wa…
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction from changes in individual and household characteristics, including changes in the sectoral, occupationa…
Pathways to the Middle Class in Turkey
Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent (respectively, defined using the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia regional poverty lines of 2.5 and 5 USD/PPP). Most of this poverty reduction (89 percent) has be…
What are the Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Host Community Welfare in Turkey? A Subnational Poverty Analysis
In recent years, Turkey has been host to more than two million Syrians seeking refuge. Initially concentrated in the southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many questions from policy makers regarding the impact of the population of Syrians Under Temporary Protection on the host community. This paper examines the impact of migrants on regional host communities from a poverty perspective. The paper does no…
Who are the Poor in the Developing World
This paper presents a new demographic \n profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those \n living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per \n day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 \n developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural \n and young; 80 percent of the extreme poor and 75 percent of \n the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45 percent of \n the extreme poor are children younger than 1…
Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
A New Profile of the Global Poor
A New Profile of the Global Poor
This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural and young; 80% of the extreme poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme…
Measuring Early Childhood Development Among 4–6 Year Olds
The last 15 years have seen an explosion of measurement tools for assessing the development of young children in low- and middle- income countries. This paper builds on and contributes to that literature by identifying a core set of caregiver-report items and a core set of direct assessment items that measure key developmental domains for children aged 4–6 (48–83 months) and that demonstrate adequate psychometric properties across diverse context…
Covid-19 School Closures, Learning Losses and Intergenerational Mobility
The paper presents a first global investigation of the longer-term inequality implications of COVID-19 by examining the effect of school closures on the ability of children from different countries and backgrounds to engage in continued learning throughout the pandemic, and their implications for intergenerational mobility in education. The analysis builds on the data from the Global Database of Intergenerational Mobility, country-specific result…
Sexualized Drug Use Among Sexually and Gender Diverse Adolescents in Brazil
Sexualized drug use (SDU) is a known phenomenon with significant implications for HIV vulnerability. Chemsex, a specific subset of SDU, involves the use of substances such as GHB/GBL, mephedrone, or methamphetamine to facilitate sexual activity. This study investigated factors associated with SDU among sexual and gender diverse adolescents (SGDa) in Brazil. This study used data from the PrEP15-19 project, a cohort investigating the implementation…
Covid-19 school closures, learning losses and intergenerational mobility
The paper investigates the longer-term inequality implications of COVID-19 by examining the ability of children from different backgrounds to engage in continued learning throughout the pandemic, and their implications for intergenerational mobility in education. The analysis builds on data from the Global Database of Intergenerational Mobility, country-specific learning loss simulation models using weekly school closure information from February…
Economics (12 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (11 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Poverty (8 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Inequality (4 works)