This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from … 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The … investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption …

Indonesia has lowered the total poverty rate by less than 10%. Earlier poverty measurements in Indonesia suggest that … transient poverty is more prevalent. We argue that, when employing the Equally Distributed Equivalent (EDE) approach and … disaggregated poverty lines, chronic poverty is more prevalent than transient poverty. We estimated chronic and transient poverty in …

, while external debt worsens income inequality, win-win trade liberalization policies could act as instruments for poverty … (AfCFTA), cutting down on external debt financing of major developments projects, rolling out more poverty alleviation …

Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …