This paper analyzes whether participation in formal and informal community activities helped household in Indonesia … mitigating the impact of the 1998 economic crisis and increasing the probability of household head being employed. The paper uses … the 1997 and 2000 round of Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) to capture the impact of economic crisis on household …

This paper analyzes whether participation in formal and informal community activities helped household in Indonesia …) to capture the impact of economic crisis on household welfare. The empirical results do not seem to support those … hypotheses. Using number of children in each household as instrumental variable to solve the reverse causality and omitted …

effectiveness in poverty alleviation. As centralization and decentralization are not definitive concepts, but defining features … different outcomes in the common quest of poverty alleviation. Empirical evidence points out that while new institutions would … would have a better outcome in poverty alleviation. This paper calls for due attention of policy makers to address the …

measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are …

Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a … rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the … budgetary and fiscal measures which can be redesigned in a way that can significantly reduce poverty and ensure economic and …

Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a … rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the … budgetary and fiscal measures which can be redesigned in a way that can significantly reduce poverty and ensure economic and …