new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …

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

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 …

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 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 …

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 …