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countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …
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A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty … but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment …
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Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …
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Poverty alleviation is typically addressed in financial programming through additive programs that target vulnerable … groups but without modifying the underlying stabilization and adjustment targets. Instead, this paper integrates the poverty … alleviation objective into the financial programming framework using a well-known poverty index. In consequence, the assessment of …
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This paper assesses the effectiveness of policies taken by the Burkinabè authorities to protect the poor from the adverse impact of a combined food and oil price shock in 2008. Estimates of the impact based on household survey data and a price pass-through model suggest that these policies were...
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This paper applies, through a case study on Malawi, a simple methodology indicating the first-round (i.e., price) effects of macroeconomic policies on real earnings of the poor. As the economic program in Malawi has not involved substantial exchange rate action or cuts in subsidies, the real...
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new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …
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