This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the existence of poverty traps, understood as self-reinforcing mechanisms … through which poor individuals or countries remain poor. Poverty traps have captured the interest of many development policy … makers, because poverty traps provide a theoretically coherent explanation for persistent poverty. They also suggest that …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

access to financial services, measured by the number of bank branches, on working poverty and inequality in the labor market … on working poverty is two times less important than the positive impact on workers at the top of the income distribution … to financial services for relatively rich workers can have a strong effect on decreasing working poverty …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since …