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"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …
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"Does child labor decrease as household income rises? This question has important implications for the design of policy on child labor. This paper focuses on a program of unconditional cash transfers in Ecuador. It argues that the effect of a small increase in household income on child labor...
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"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …
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"This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and...
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its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …
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for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …
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""Poverty maps"-that is, graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare-are being increasingly … used to geographically target scarce resources. But the development of detailed poverty maps in many low resource settings … indices, using existing census data. This paper develops a set of poverty maps for Azerbaijan that can be used by different …
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"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries include Bangladesh, Brazil (two studies), Cameroon, China (two … poverty link. It does, however, limit the ability to draw broader conclusions. Thus an additional study provides a 15-country …
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poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future. "--World Bank web site …
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workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty … sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 … (three months) would bring the annual poverty rate down to 31 percent at a cost of 1.3 percent of GDP. While the gains from a …
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