undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

creation, given the nature of poverty in Dominica. The GSPS also stresses that existing health and education programs are … framework that is consistent with the proposed objectives of poverty reduction. The growth and fiscal targets envisaged in the …

This paper presents the Annual Progress Report on Vietnam’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The industrial output and … increased, especially that of the private sector, which has been vigorously increased. The targets of employment and poverty …

The Union of the Comoros’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRGS) paper reports that the government⠅

for private enterprise and sectoral strategies; and poverty reduction and social protection programs. Economic growth in …

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …

) during 2004 in Albania. The NSSED established a multiyear plan to combat poverty and strengthen governance. The main …

poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …