The paper reviews the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach and efforts to build institutional statistical capacity … to permit evidence-based monitoring of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Integrating the PRS approach and …

new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …

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

Following the adoption by the international community of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach, which … poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of different policy reforms being considered by the low income countries. This paper … suggested framework could be utilized to investigate the poverty/income distributional implications of introducing a value …

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 …

sound policies on the part of the recipients are crucial for the aid to be effective in reducing poverty …

countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …