immediately preceded it, has spread to the developing countries endangering recent gains in terms of economic growth and poverty …, households with few economic opportunities are at a higher risk of falling into (monetary) poverty, suffering from hunger …, removing children from school and into work, and losing access to health services. This study simulates the impacts of the …

urban. Withdrawal of health subsidy leads to domestic re-allocation of poverty pushing down the wage rates in agricultural …Health is considered to be an extremely important component of human welfare. By the time India gained independence in … 1947, achievement of good health had become an important national goal in its own right. Nevertheless, a vast public health …

This study aims to evaluate the potential impacts of the 2008/09 global economic crisis on child poverty in Cameroon … dimensions of child poverty are examined: monetary poverty, caloric poverty, child school participation and child labour, and … children’s access to health care services. The study shows that the crisis is projected to lower the real GDP growth rate by 1 …

potential impacts of the 2008/9 global crisis on different dimensions of child poverty (monetary, hunger, school participation …, child labour and access to health services) in Ghana and to support the policy-maker in designing the most appropriate … crisis would increase monetary poverty and hunger across all regions of Ghana, eroding many of the gains made over the past …

In the context of a sharp rise in the incidence of poverty and increasing inequality since the end of the last decade …, labour markets, and poverty and inequality are assessed using a top-down static CGE, a microsimulation approach. It is shown … reduction of poverty incidences, poverty gaps and the severity of poverty exclusively due to the introduction of the personal …

This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in … 2007 Cameroon household consumption surveys. The results show that education, health, employment in the formal sector, age … active household members, employment in the formal sector, household size and health. The study concludes that public …

preferential credit. This paper examines poverty targeting and impact of the micro-credit program. It is found that the program is … on poverty reduction of the participants. This positive impact is found for all the three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …

This research quantifies the effects on poverty in Ecuador of bilateral trade liberalization with the U.S. and fiscal … policies as the main mechanisms through which trade impacts poverty. The paper combines a reduced-form micro household income … small. Indigence and income distribution effects are small but positive. There are mixed results on poverty. The best …

in 2008. The program is focused on children aged 0 to 18 and aims at alleviating poverty and promoting school attendance … attendance, poverty, inequality and adult labour supply. Our ex-ante estimated effects indicate that teenage school attendance … attendance shows a progressive pattern. The program also significantly reduces extreme poverty, and to a lesser extent, the …