universal plague of poverty reduction in developing economies. Focusing on developing economies especially Ghana, and also … decentralization and its effects on poverty reduction from the optimist and pessimist views. The paper affirmed that fiscal … decentralization has the potential for poverty reduction when it is characterized by greater financial autonomy of the local units with …

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from … 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The … investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption …

international flows to their poverty reduction effects. However, results have also been mixed. Most studies have examined the … aid on poverty reduction in a single model using the Feasible Generalized Least Square (FGLS) technique. Our results show … that FDI and foreign aid have a negative effect on poverty reduction in the countries studied. These results suggest that …

Poverty is a global socio-economic phenomenon. It is always a problem in all countries include developing countries and … developed countries. In Vietnam, the poverty rate has been decreasing while the urbanization has happened rapidly over the past … 20 years. Handling the dual problems of urbanization and poverty is important to be able to attain sustainable …

Despite the extensive literature on rural poverty outcome, the labour employment channel has not been carefully …

There is no international consensus on what poverty is and how it should be measured. The most commonly used poverty … indicator, income level, is limited as it ignores the multidimensional character of poverty. Because the choice of an indicator …, the choice of a poverty indicator is important. It sets priorities for policies and programs and determines outcomes of …

Slower growth and higher inflation can worsen poverty. By implication, maintaining macroeconomic stability is necessary … to reduce poverty. When a typical aggregate demand (AD) policy for stabilization is not effective, however, its impact on … poverty could be devastating as incomes of the poor typically decline with falling output. In this study, I argue that when …