Income distribution in the Philippines is highly uneven, and poverty rates are higher than in other ASEAN countries. In … addition, although the poverty rate has declined over time, the rate of decline has been lower than in other countries, and …

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 …

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 …