absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the … restricted to tied movers and refugees. We use 60 percent of the median in the distribution of equivalent disposable as poverty … line. Data comes from two large panels based on administrative data. We find that immigrants have higher poverty rates than …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

ability in serving the differentiated and high-quality markets of the developed world. …