Social transfer programmes in developing countries are designed to contribute to poverty reduction by increasing the … poverty and neediness or whether other factors also have an influence. To investigate these and other research questions, we …

, we develop a new set of indicators for productive employment and decent work. We propose four indicators: (i) the growth … of labor value added per worker, (ii) the working poverty rate, (iii) (a) the share of workers receiving less than an …

Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional … consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the … central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and …