Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset …

Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis (GEC) on Philippine poverty. This … crisis on the economy and poverty across population groups was nonetheless severe - and may linger for many years to come. …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7–1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of … using data for more than 20 countries in the region for 1988–2007. The results indicate that remittances positively affect …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

receiving welfare payments was about twice as high as the respective share for the entire population. Poverty head count rates … (based on a poverty threshold of 50 percent of median equivalent income) clearly increased over this period from about 10 …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 and 2003) information. We define poverty as … living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …