Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …

Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is little causal evidence that … to reduce poverty. It raises only the after-tax wage rates of workers in low- and moderate-income families, its tax …

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to examine the actual conditions of the problems of poverty in rural areas in … Inner Mongolia, to clarify the problems involved in the measure to fight poverty through promotion of dairy farming and to … propose policies for future measures to fight poverty. Design/methodology/approach – Both quantitative and qualitative …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …

In this article, we analyze the influence of being disabled on poverty dynamics. We present results adjusting the … modified OECD equivalence scale by the number of adults with severe disabilities in the household and calculate poverty rates … the probability of being poor and separate the effects of being disabled on poverty that are short and long-term. The …

When the global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic emerged in early 2020, Liberia was already facing a challenging …