for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

Index number theory informs us that if data on matched prices and quantities are available, a superlative index number … formula is best to aggregate heterogeneous items, and a unit value index to aggregate homogeneous ones. The formulas can give … as to why such formulas differ and proposes a solution to this index number problem …

paper proposes a policy space index. The index combines a quantitative, albeit relatively limited and narrow, fiscal space … markets, debt distress level, and the exchange rate regime. The final policy space index is derived as a composite of the … three nominal policy space indicators, each adjusted for five institutional features. This index is different from the …

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …