Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …

. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …This paper focuses on two central issues related to the contrasting experiences of Malaysia and Pakistan regarding … poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries …

Poverty alleviation is typically addressed in financial programming through additive programs that target vulnerable … groups but without modifying the underlying stabilization and adjustment targets. Instead, this paper integrates the poverty … alleviation objective into the financial programming framework using a well-known poverty index. In consequence, the assessment of …