This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive … analysis of poverty and labor market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of … land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child … labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in household size. The effect of income is shown to depend upon whether the …

. While the static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race of the household … significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … large household survey for rural Pakistan, we estimate structural labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of …

well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …