for two Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs), Tanzania and Zambia. The simulation results suggest that education … education expenditure can be effective for poverty alleviation …

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 …

, which be associated with an increase in poverty of about 75 million people. Policy responses more effective than those in …

A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty … but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …

variable (IAV) to establish the effects of foreign aid on economic growth or the reduction of poverty. The common assumption in …

The objective of this paper is to present some early experiences of poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) from the … step toward PSIA by making more explicit the links between poverty and policies. Various examples highlight that even … potential poverty effects even in countries with limited data, and therefore contribute to a more informed policy debate and …

support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …