different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle …

Over the past decades ASEAN countries have experienced rapid economic growth accompanied by a dramatic fall in poverty …

detrimental medium-term effects on output, unemployment, poverty, and inequality. However, policies can go a long way toward … relatively greater fiscal support. The increases in unemployment, poverty, and inequality are likewise lower for countries with …

This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the … flows act as a substitute to formal financial channels, thereby reducing financial inclusion. In contrast, when remittance … inclusion. This 'U shaped' relationship highlights the role of remittance flows in financing household consumption at low levels …

This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes … greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and the higher the mean income, the higher the … downturn; and (iii) higher growth does not bring diminishing returns to poverty reduction. Moreover, we show that very high …