This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of migration and remittances (that is, a ‘private safety net’ built around solidarity within families) rather than the … distributive effect of public social expenditure or other public policies. -- El Salvador ; remittances ; migration ; inequality …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects …

Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

economy of the region and also looks ahead to identify the major challenges that remain - focusing on Bangladesh, Pakistan …

living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …