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

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

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

framework (IGF). Based on the data on growth, poverty, and inequality, the framework allows for the quantitative assessment of … growth inclusiveness. The assessment relies on the decomposition of the change in poverty into growth, distribution, and …

The paper examines the poverty-reducing and distributional characteristics of Djibouti's economic growth, and discusses … surveys are available. The main findings are that while in the past decade the overall level of poverty in Djibouti declined … in poverty reduction and inclusiveness would require not only sustained high growth but also the creation of …

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