Ghana’s tax reforms constitute the major policy instrument needed to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. Over the … significantly reduce poverty. The critical issue has been how to generate the needed resources domestically, using tax instruments …

The paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in … poverty reduction; and second, that savings do Granger-cause poverty reduction in Ghana. Also, the effect of financial sector … development on poverty reduction is positive but insignificant. This is due to the fact that financial intermediaries in Ghana …

, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …