This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify …

inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

The problem of land inequality has attracted renewed interest in the development literature due to its potential … effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer … understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is important for effective targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria …

inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …

Using household data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) and the sector-specific growth and … poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …

participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. … out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 …