social returns between 2 and 3 percent. This result is robust to alternative estimation methods and does not seem to depend …

a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

This paper analyzes Central America's track record on inequality, poverty, and quality of fiscal adjustment in relation …

This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty …

serve both the redistributive and growth-enhancing objectives of poverty reduction policies. The current state of housing …

Throughout the world, the great popularity of programs to protect those who may fall into poverty stands in contrast … with the weakness of policies aimed at helping individuals who are already poor to overcome long-term poverty. In the paper …, an OLG model with persistent poverty and limited social mobility is used to explore some of the reasons for the different …

outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …