Cameroon is engaged in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty … reduction in the design and implementation of growth and adjustment strategies. The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty … process and quantifying poverty reduction strategies. Drawing on that framework, this paper provides a detailed financial …

, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a …Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …

China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through … infrastructure improvements on Belt and Road Initiative and non?Belt and Road Initiative countries' trade flows, growth, and poverty … the Belt and Road Initiative would be largely beneficial. First, global income increases by 0.7 percent (in 2030 relative …

negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and …This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation?economic slowdown and … on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper finds that an average annual slowdown of gross domestic product in China of 1 …

true value when there is correlated incidence heterogeneity. A case study for a large cash transfer program in China … data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper … finds that the actual rate is much lower, and clearly too low in the light of the literature on optimal income taxation. The …

on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this application, it is shown that … migration is important for reducing the likelihood that poor households remain in poverty and that non-poor households fall into … effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. The model is next used to examine the impact of rural-urban migration …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen …