Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could …, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

US Census Bureau poverty measures do not include an explicit need for health care or insurance nor do they consider … on poverty. This paper reviews conceptual and practical considerations in incorporating health benefits and needs into … poverty measures. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches including variants of the Official Poverty …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

matched March CPS surveys, focusing on the effectiveness of minimum wages in reducing poverty. The results show that over a … one-to-two year period, minimum wages increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability … that previously non-poor families fall into poverty. The estimated increase in the number of non-poor families that fall …

individually increased educational attainment and earnings, and reduced the likelihood of both poverty and incarceration in … followed by sustained educational investments over time can effectively break the cycle of poverty …

, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …