It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

and large-scale emigration. Using data from the Riinvest Labour Force and Household Survey (December 2002), we estimate …

emigration, following Hirschman’s model of ‘exit’ undermining ‘voice’. The article argues that this remains insufficient in two … the Cuban state’s capacity to rein in uncontrolled emigration and to reassure its ‘gatekeeper role’. In addition, the …

The diversity visa lottery popularly known as the D.V lottery is a U.S relatively new immigration policy that was … in the U.S. However, from the policy inception, immigration specialists seriously doubted the claimed objective. They … would be probably had to verify. In this paper, we review in details the D.V immigration policy program considering …