This paper characterizes the nature of poverty from a dynamic life-cycle perspective. Using panel data from the … National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that 40% of young Americans experienced at least one year of poverty, and most … of these experienced one or two years. A significant group, by age 34, had suffered five or more years of poverty out of …

global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non … special weight be given to the poor in poor countries? How, if at all, should international agencies with a focus on poverty … greater debate on the new geography of global poverty. …

of incomes of future generations. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. From a policy point of view, we analyse poverty … was expensive but that it provided effective - albeit not efficient - poverty relief. From a methodological point of view …, we demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures …

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion programme significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …

poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …

reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … for a sample of 15 countries, and ten stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty …