the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1 … poverty is primarily rural and young; 80 percent of the extreme poor and 75 percent of the moderate poor live in rural areas … in households with three or more children. Gender differences in poverty rates are muted, and there is scant evidence of …

migrants on regional host communities from a poverty perspective. The paper does not find any negative impacts on poverty for … poverty rates experienced among the recent migrants …

In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and … vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during … the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional …

Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have … fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate … poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent (respectively, defined using the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia regional …

in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced substantial declines in … poverty. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the analysis generates entire counterfactual …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …