The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

reductions. The mode for recycling carbon tax revenues strongly influences distributional outcomes, with tradeoffs between growth …

While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is …

district where a dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located … downstream from the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … implications, and has, in aggregate, increased poverty"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …