Kimberly Bolch

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

[Almudena Fernandez @almudenaf]

Acompáñame junto a, @kbbolch , @cesifoti, @LFLopezCalva 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: https://t.co/rMec5vzT8d

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

The Inter-American Development Bank is forming a poverty group, with multiple staff positions.

Lead Specialist https://t.co/JKiUg5EAh0

Specialist https://t.co/HImwuGoVOT

Great opportunity to help shape the organization's operational & analytical work around poverty reduction.

[Ecineq @ecineq]

📢Call for papers📢
11th #ECINEQ Conference
July 9-11, 2025 - Washington DC
Co-hosted by @WorldBank Group and @GWtweets.
Keynote speakers:
@DrDaronAcemoglu @GGenicot Debraj Ray @noralustig
Deadline for submission: February 15, 2025.
More info here:
https://t.co/LYcvIMpUJw

[Chris Barrett @cbb2cornell]

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,@jhaushofer, @UptonJoannaB, @MartinaOccelli, @JohnHoddinott6, and perhaps more! https://t.co/QGGz9K872b

[Luis Felipe López-Calva @LFLopezCalva]

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 @WorldBank blog post with @ViktorStojkoski, @kbbolch, and @almudenaf, we discuss how network science can help us map and understand these connections, capturing the structural relationships among different dimensions of poverty.

In many countries, policies targeting poverty tend to be isolated within sectors, overlooking how one deprivation affects others—for example, how a lack of electricity affects education. By applying network science, we introduce two new concepts:

1. Poverty Space: a visual representation that maps out the structural relationships between various dimensions of poverty
2. Poverty Centrality: a measure that assigns an importance score to each dimension within the network

Just as acupuncture targets a few strategic nodes in the body’s system for holistic impacts, targeting the right policy nodes could allow policymakers to potentially create ripple effects across multiple dimensions of poverty.

Read more here: https://t.co/AYPl07N3nL

[Michelle Muschett @MichMuschett]

To bring poverty back at the center of public debate on development, @almudenaf @kbbolch @EspinosaFranc @RobertoAnguloS @sabina_alkire shared with LAC Ministers innovative policy approaches to accelerate poverty reduction as a precondition to build a resilient human development.

[Almudena Fernandez @almudenaf]

En el #ForoMinisterial2024 presenté nuestra investigación conjunta con @kbbolch, @LFLopezCalva de @WorldBank 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]

It was a pleasure to participate in the #ForoMinisterial2024 to discuss innovative approaches on #data for #poverty eradication and to share our work at @WBG_Poverty on real-time monitoring of welfare.

Thank you to @pnud, @cepal_onu, & #Barbados government for the invitation!

[Christoph Lakner @ChristophLakner]

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]

Great opportunity to learn about the findings from the latest @UNDP 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: https://t.co/2911LVBkQB

[Luis Felipe López-Calva @LFLopezCalva]

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 @WorldBank Policy Research Working Paper co-authored with Victor Stojkoski,
@kbbolch and @almudenaf, we use network science to propose two new measures for understanding the interconnected structure of multidimensional poverty: the Poverty Space and Poverty Centrality.

We show how the Poverty Space can be applied in policy-making and emphasize the relevance of using network science methods to help to identify key “nodes” in the structure of multidimensional poverty where targeted interventions could have a greater impact.

Learn more here: https://t.co/WmlQjHCMbT

[Rachel Glennerster @rglenner]

Calling researchers interested in combining research & policy impact! We @CGDev are hiring Fellows & Senior Fellows based in DC or London.
Open across fields within development & global public goods including health, education, agriculture, climate.
https://t.co/ku03lJzc6f

[Kimberly Bolch @kbbolch]

Don't miss this public lecture from @jblumenstock at @WorldBank on Sept 16. The @UCBerkeley Global Policy Lab is leading innovative research on using mobile phone data, satellite imaging, & machine learning to monitor & map #poverty.

Event livestream: https://t.co/Nh028SZEEv

[Richard Blundell @R_Blundell_UCL]

Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review @TheIFS 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 https://t.co/8yn3Hq3Fmf

[Kimberly Bolch @kbbolch]

📢Applications open today!

The @WorldBank 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:
https://t.co/Ad58JwY2Ml

[Kimberly Bolch @kbbolch]

@DaveEvansPhD @LFLopezCalva @eduardoortizj Thank you for sharing our paper, @DaveEvansPhD!

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Can you predict chronic poverty with a single, cross sectional survey? @KbBolch, @LFLopezCalva, & @eduardoortizj provide evidence from three Latin American countries that you can.

Published https://t.co/Owd1HBySAX

Open access https://t.co/axiqkMRnbe

[Janet Gornick @JanetGornick]

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, @DaveBrady72 @IveMarx & @ZParolin reports that US taxes push a larger % of adults into poverty than do several other countries.

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

We have a full-time position available for a writer at @OurWorldInData!

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 global problems for a large, thoughtful audience.
• And crucially you will have the freedom to dedicate your energy and creativity to what you do best: writing.

You can find all details and how you can apply here:
https://t.co/aPhbqXfND3

[Kimberly Bolch @kbbolch]

@SamRitholtz @PolStudiesAssoc 👏👏👏 well deserved!