poverty. But they did not create a legalized institutional regime, in which precise obligations would be delegated to specific … the causes and remedies of global poverty. Their formulation and implementation should also draw on national institutions …

. Further, there is now a consensus on adopting more ambitious goals on poverty reduction. Defining social protection as a … collection of programs that address risk, vulnerability, inequality and poverty through a system of transfers in cash or in kind …: Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) data set. Focusing on the goal of ending poverty, the paper estimates that social …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty … impact of policy shocks on poverty by linking the model to a household survey. They calibrate the model for Ethiopia and … should increase to reach the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals. …

The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate … simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of … development. They then use these models to assess the empirical relevance of poverty traps and their consequences for policy. The …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that …

implications of the new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for China's poverty rate (by international … China than past estimates, with about 15% of the population living in consumption poverty, implying about 130 million more …In 2005, China participated for the first time in the International Comparison Program (ICP), which collects primary …

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and … pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic …). Rising inequality within the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high …