This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and …-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important contributor was the growth in labor income … wages as the driving force behind poverty declines. Lower dependency ratios also helped to reduce poverty, particularly in …

Measuring the poverty and distributional impact of the global crisis for developing countries is not easy, given the … addressing questions like who are being affected by the crisis and by how much, and who are vulnerable to falling into poverty if … literature, to measure the poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks by linking macro projections with pre …