Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

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

poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries … economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …

This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub … institutional freedom, and island economies are important control variables that help explain the variability of poverty across …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

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

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 …

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