various designs and estimating costs and possible impacts on poverty and inequality. The authors also analyse a series of …

and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the … address the link between labour markets and the dynamics of inequality and poverty by comparing the average performance of the …

performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

The small-area estimation technique developed for producing poverty maps has been applied in a large number of …-area estimation methodology could significantly over-state the precision of local-level estimates of poverty, if underlying … conditions that have been argued to be essential for the method, confidence intervals for the poverty estimates also appear to be …

the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school. The potential endogeneity of …. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …