It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the …

We investigate the factors driving Bolivia's success in reducing inequality and poverty during the last 15 years. Our … the poverty and inequality reduction of the last 15 years …

Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education. However, even if spending … indigenous women who have the lowest levels of education in the country …

adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them to rely on informal sources … gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that an increase in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in …

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 …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

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 …