health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …

particular, poverty reduction was slower in low-income DMCs than the others under both the $1.25 and $2 per day poverty lines …Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005-2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing …

the aggregated income required to eradicate poverty by the way of transfers from the rich to the poor. I estimate an …The paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate an affluence line that depends on the knowledge of the income … distribution and the poverty line for a given population. The idea that poverty is morally unacceptable and can be eradicated …

?middle-income? country, a status it retained for Bretton Woods lending until 1997. The middle-income designation implied that … concessionary finance from the major bilateral development agencies. After demonstrating that assigning middle-income status to … consequences. It uses a simple procedure for calculating counterfactual scenarios based on assigning Moldova low-income status in …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … poverty rate, but they tend to decrease the poverty gap and thereby ameliorate the depth of poverty. The estimates suggest … that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7-1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of …