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 …

, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …

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 …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results … and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants. …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting …

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 …