We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … Korea and Indonesia. Descriptive evidence is presented suggesting that pension eligible workers are far more likely to cease …

Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the … Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper …

coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …