This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development …

for, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid allocation. NGOs do not respond to …

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

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 …

This paper explores the relationship between external debt and poverty. A number of observers have argued that high … external indebtedness is a major cause of poverty. Using the first-differenced general method of moments (GMM) estimator, the … paper models the impact of external debt on poverty, measured by life expectancy, infant mortality, and gross primary …

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the … and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty …

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

spending. For poverty reduction, HIPC relief is important but broader international support is needed. The paper maintains that …

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 …