This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty … regressions. Results showed that COVID-19 had significantly increased the poverty levels of households while deteriorating living …

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 …

Indonesia has lowered the total poverty rate by less than 10%. Earlier poverty measurements in Indonesia suggest that … transient poverty is more prevalent. We argue that, when employing the Equally Distributed Equivalent (EDE) approach and … disaggregated poverty lines, chronic poverty is more prevalent than transient poverty. We estimated chronic and transient poverty in …

This study investigates the causal relationship between poverty reduction and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows … of causality between FDI and poverty reduction, which is important to policy-makers as it identifies which variable to … study reveal a distinct unidirectional causality from poverty reduction to FDI in both the short run and the long run when …

Whilst structurally poor households fall below the income and asset poverty line, stochastically poor households fall … below the income poverty line but above the asset poverty line. This distinction suggests different challenges for the … households in dealing with shocks and building the resilience to make a lasting escape from poverty. Accordingly, we examine the …

. This study aims to analyze the role and determinants of women's labor force participation for reducing household poverty in … order to analyze the effect of woman labor force participation to household poverty reduction, with the probability of a … confirms that women's participation reduces the household poverty. Therefore, this study recommends that household uses family …

-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in … urbanization rate induces 0.04 and 0.05 (0.07 and 0.09) percentage points decrease in the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty Gap …

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 …