social capital measures to assess the impact of a pilot program that was randomly rolled out in rural villages in Cambodia …

social capital measures to assess the impact of a pilot program that was randomly rolled out in rural villages in Cambodia …

This paper evaluates a primary school scholarship program in Cambodia with two different targeting mechanisms, one … based on poverty level and the other on baseline test scores ( "merit" ). Both targeting mechanisms increased enrollment and …

Cambodia's growth over 1998-2008 has been remarkable (almost 10 percent per annum for a decade). This paper applies a …

An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a seemingly basic … implication of the underlying theoretical models, namely that countries suffering from higher levels of poverty should grow less … affect growth in opposing directions. Because inequality and poverty are different aspects of the income distribution …

This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries … over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period … 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to increase by 2030 in resource-output oriented countries and economies with …

reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …