Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Poverty remains high at 43 percent of the … goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty reduction. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important …

reprioritization, one of the modalities for realizing fiscal space for health. Theory and cross-country empirical analyses do not … provide clear, cut explanations for the observed variations in government prioritization of health. Standard economic theory …