We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured … discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made decisions about when to enjoy entertainment instead of working. To circumvent … the role of economic constraints, we experimentally induced thoughts about poverty-related problems, using priming …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …