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 …

poverty significantly through higher agricultural production, higher wages, lower input and transportation costs, and higher …

data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to … of poverty reduction have been higher for participants. Testing the net effect of microcredit programs requires applying …

such social effects on welfare call for a reconsideration of how we assess global poverty, but they do not support standard … measures of relative poverty. The paper argues instead for using a weakly-relative measure as the upper-bound complement to the … lower-bound provided by a standard absolute measure. New estimates of global poverty are presented, drawing on 850 household …

Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely … defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of … based on energy demand. The energy poverty line is defined as the threshold point at which energy consumption begins to rise …

energy poverty line. The paper finds that although the use of both traditional (biomass energy burned in conventional stoves … poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent … biomass use can lower energy poverty in a climate-friendly way by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy poverty …

Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a … and extreme poverty. Although the program has demonstrated its promise, it is too early to conclude whether the accrued … benefits are large enough to contain both seasonal and chronic poverty on a sustained basis …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

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 …