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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …