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 …

The HIPC Initiative requires countries receiving debt relief to undertake a Poverty Reduction Strategy programme … reforms in the context of their Poverty Reduction Strategies have performed better overall during 1997-2001 than countries …

growth in the economy, exports capability or poverty reduction this paper much of the borrowing contracted during 1973-82 was …