countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …

programs) and to revive social services like education and health. …

consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from … distributional impact from an increase in high-income countries' labor force caused by migration from developing countries. Chapter 3 …

objective of this study is to analyze this poverty, so as to help design measures and policies to reduce it. The study also … seeks to understand the phenomenon of unemployment--the main cause of poverty-and propose actions to alleviate it. The … report is organized as follows: After Chapter 1, which explains the background of poverty and inequality in the Slovak …

Reducing poverty, and providing for minimum needs, is the ultimate yardstick against which to measure development. To … this end, the study outlines India's growth rate, improved social indicators, and poverty reduction since the 1970s, but … specifies that, despite this progress, poverty is a serious concern, where social indicators remain below comparator countries …

Poverty in Guatemala is high and deep. In 2000, over half of all Guatemalans lived in poverty. About 16 percent lived … in extreme poverty. Available evidence suggests that poverty in Guatemala is higher than in other Central American … countries. Although poverty has fallen over the past decade, its trend recently declined due to a series of economic shocks …

of unequal income distribution, impacts of climate change, and other external influences must also be addressed to build …