Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in …

beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) - a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

old-age poverty due to their longer longevity. This paper uses data from a special module we devised on planning and …

that both Black and Hispanic households made remarkable progress in terms of mean and median retirement income, poverty … projected poverty rate rising, and the projected replacement rate falling, though expected mean retirement income does rise …. Hispanics also experienced a setback in mean retirement income but continued progress in replacement rates and reducing poverty …

, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …

(majority) of "Bumiputera" (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …