poverty should take account of the disequalizing income-effect of foreign investment in undeveloped countries. …

An April 2015 World Bank report on attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target has … revealed that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA … common policy initiatives against a cause of extreme poverty in SSA: capital flight. The richness of the dataset enables the …

This chapter examines the rates of poverty and inequality in Israel over time and in comparison with other OECD …, Israel’s poverty and inequality rates are among the highest relative to other developed countries in both market income … income inequality (though this was not accompanied by a substantial decline in poverty rates). Disposable income inequality …

Although employment growth is propagated as being crucial to reduce poverty across OECD countries, the actual impact of … employment growth on poverty rates is still unclear. This study presents novel estimates of the impact of macro-level trends in … female labour force participation on trends in poverty, across 15 OECD countries from 1971 to 2013. It does so based on over …

lives of children and families and how governments respond to economic crises. We calculate child poverty rates before and …, and less unionization. While prior studies have examined within-country and cross-country variation in child poverty …, we quantify the impact that market, social policy transfers, and taxes had on child poverty. Last, within countries, we …

This paper aims to better understand the income factors that influenced child poverty rates across a group of four … diverse middle-income countries in 2010. We use data from LIS to analyze child poverty using harmonized measures of income in …, protected children from higher rates of child poverty? For this question, we disaggregated incomes to identify tax and transfer …