implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest …-capita income. A particularly important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined …

We examine the relationship between growth in labor productivity and poverty reduction through the lens of changes in … the structure of output and employment. Combining state-level data from India on poverty with state-level data on output … productivity sector is an important channel through which increases in aggregate productivity translate into poverty reduction. We …

The Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Draft Medium Term Development Framework recognize that the most … effective means of reducing poverty is through the creation of productive and remunerative employment. This paper examines how … analysis in a historical context the growth-employment -poverty nexus to show how employment and labor market developments have …

Poverty is easily recognized when encountered "face to face," but when measured for a society as a whole it becomes … evasive and ambiguous, raising fundamental and practical issues. In this paper we examine several poverty measures from the … economic policy on poverty. A rational poverty-reduction policy requires a quantifiable poverty target which has a sufficiently …