, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of … the past few years to reduce poverty while still experiencing positive economic growth. The authors show that in Poland …, poverty-reducing growth depends heavily on the ability of the economy to generate jobs. During the early years of transition …

on child labor. This paper focuses on a program of unconditional cash transfers in Ecuador. It argues that the effect of …

"Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …

"This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a … (private) goods to the poor, such as latrines. Controlling for poverty, more unequal communities are less likely to receive …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …

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