In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of … on the headcount measure of poverty incidence for Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines over the period from … economic determinants of changes in poverty incidence. …

to find a path toward faster growth in GDP, employment, and incomes, accompanied by more rapid progress on poverty …

This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general … equilibrium model featuring inter-temporal productivity spillovers, which may exhibit a sector-specific and regional bias. In … which favor nontradable activities over export agriculture and manufacturing thereby increasing rural and national poverty …

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 education … poverty. …

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 …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain … sectors may cause greater poverty reduction. The model involves a non-traded and a traded sector on the formal side of the … traded sector is more pro-poor compared to a similar rise in the non-traded sector as the former draws workers out of poverty …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …

accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …