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 … 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 …