In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews … some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for … reducing poverty, taking into account the functional differences and overlap between the rural poor. Several policy options are …

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 …

This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development …

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. …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …