increase in poverty associates with higher purchasing power of the poor. Using cross-country data at two points in time on the …

. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to … literature, it appears that reduced rural poverty in Cambodia would have to rest on two pillars. Firstly, improvements in … established. Using the 2004 Cambodian Socio-Economic Survey, and focusing on the binding constraints to development and poverty …

relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and … using a “long run” first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We …

address housing policy issues in China. One of the main concerns in Chinese cities is the raise of poverty mainly by “illegal …” migrants (who are Chinese rural residents) living in “urban villages”. We propose two steps to fight against poverty in Chinese … case, to fight against poverty, one can either implement place-targeted policies (like the enterprise zone programs in the …