find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … less poor, inequality-reducing policies are likely to become relatively more effective for poverty reduction than growth …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …

, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to …This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics … of poverty reduction have been higher for participants. Testing the net effect of microcredit programs requires applying …

energy poverty line. The paper finds that although the use of both traditional (biomass energy burned in conventional stoves … poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent … biomass use can lower energy poverty in a climate-friendly way by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy poverty …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …

local politicians, public works aiming to maximize their impact on poverty should rely on an objective and transparent …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …

Child labor is pervasive across sub-Saharan Africa. The common assumption is that monetary poverty is its most … demand- and supply-side and at the micro and macro levels?for why children work in agrarian economies like Ghana. Interviews … with the Minister of Education and with children enrich the multivariate regression results. The multiple sources of child …

inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …