positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …

on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …

reduce the wide differences in income earned, so that the number of people living below the poverty line can be reduced? What … roles do education and the migration of household members play in lifting people out of poverty and in improving income … inequality and poverty in developing countries. These studies help policymakers understand the root causes of income inequality …

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and … dominance is used in poverty comparisons. Sensitivity of the measures and of the observed trends to the equivalence scale used …

"This paper addresses the potential effects of a world agricultural trade liberalization scenario on poverty and … Brazil, tailored for income distribution and poverty analysis. The model distinguishes 10 different labor types and 270 … model. Poverty and income distribution indexes are computed over the entire sample of households and persons, before and …

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …

remittances, primarily from male workers overseas. Since human capital is the most important asset for the poor, the escalation in …

reliance on labor remittances exacerbated Tajikistan’s food insecurity and the vulnerability of its households. This study … economic growth and poverty reduction, constraints and bottlenecks on agricultural growth and productivity, and other policies …