Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … transfer are large: hours of nonhousehold employment double and cash earnings increase by nearly 50% relative to the control … study. These results suggest that increasing access to credit and capital could stimulate employment growth in rural Africa …

) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …

educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues … misleading and led to the so-called 'Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox', i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but … almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national …

using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measurepoverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines.Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in theliterature, including …

many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …

consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing assets are complementary to stocks, then investors … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …