development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single …This paper evaluates the effectiveness of recent welfare reforms, investigating the effects of both state … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …

in the paper, providing an income guarantee for all elderly individuals that is equal to the poverty line, increases … substantially greater effects on poverty if participation rates were increased …

, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …

of poverty. In this paper, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood …

We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on … the minimum bundle necessary to meet basic needs. Our measure differs from conventional income and consumption poverty in … both concept and measurement and it has advantages relative to both. Poverty rates using our basic measure are very close …

We investigate a method for eliciting relative poverty rankings that aggregates partial poverty rankings obtained from … reported by respondents and constructed aggregate rankings are poorly correlated with measures of poverty obtained from survey … data. Measuring relative poverty through peer rankings appears difficult in urban and periurban settings …