The middle-income trap is a serious problem in developing Asia and Pacific economies. Middle-income trap is the … to the development of middle-income countries. This paper by using data set consists of 12 Asia and Pacific middle …

in the Philippines helped mitigate the poverty impact by allocating more fiscal resources to build local resilience while …

eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the specific goals of halving the proportions of both undernourished and malnourished … people between 1990 and 2015. The poverty goal was met fully, ahead of schedule, and substantive progress was made toward the … millions of families from the desperate cycle of hunger and poverty also had consequences for the environment. Roughly 72% of …

provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the …

It is an empirical fact that it is very difficult to balance economic growth, poverty reduction, and environment … targeting of the chronic issue of poverty reduction without causing damage to the natural environment. It is in this context … crisis has discouraged United States (US) private consumption, which in turn has significantly reduced exports from Asia …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992 - 2010. Changes in these measures are …

income poverty line ('dollar-a-day'), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … situation. We consider various ways of creating an Asia-specific poverty line, including an Asia-specific international income … best to ground such an Asia-specific poverty line in a consistent method of generating national poverty lines using …

This paper estimates the number of poor in various countries in Asia by applying an "amalgam poverty line", which is a … weighted average of an absolute poverty line (such as $1.25 per day or $1.45 per day) and a reference income (such as the mean … or the median income). The number of poor is computed under various values of the weight applied to the absolute poverty …