Understanding the relationship between macroeconomic policies and poverty still remains a key policy challenge. This paper develops a framework to link key macroeconomic variables with poverty and tests the effect of policies, namely the government-led channel of development spending and...

Using cross-country regional data over the 1970-2008 period, this study provides further evidence to the growth literature by exploring human capital formation from a gender dimension in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives. We use an extended version of the...