, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

exogenous variation around eligibility age was exploited to uncover the causal effects of this expansion on extreme poverty and … of the elderly being extreme poor, but it also reduced the extreme poverty gap, and the extreme poverty severity indexes … of the elderly population. These effects on extreme poverty are generalizable to all individuals of the treated household …

reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression …

poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be … not enough and sharing prosperity within and across countries is essential to end extreme poverty in one generation …

This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It … disasters. It discusses detrimental long-term consequences for the income and welfare of the poor and the presence of poverty …