America - describes macroeconomics economic models of Guatemala, Venezuela and Brazil covering employment, the informal sector …

Central, East and Southeast Europe (by Joanna Poznanska and Kazimierz Poznanski; pp. 9-11) Wages and Employment in the Western …

€™s strong economic performance. The economy has grown strong in 2007 and through the first quarter of 2008. Employment growth …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on rural area poverty trends in Central America - summarizes findings of six case … studies; looks at agricultural incomes, wages, and other poverty-linked economic indicators; examines impact of the export …-oriented pattern of economic growth, particularly on small farm productivity, food production, land tenure and rural employment …

This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes … greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and the higher the mean income, the higher the … downturn; and (iii) higher growth does not bring diminishing returns to poverty reduction. Moreover, we show that very high …