This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …

on poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of … since 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015 …

of poverty in Colombia, surveys government programs to alleviate poverty, and reviews the factors contributing to the …

improve employment and income equality outcomes with no substantial impact on the overall risk of poverty. Nevertheless, the … reforms appear to have induced a deterioration of average hours worked, in-work poverty, and possibly also of involuntary part …

decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …

Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …