prefernce effect and the substitution effect. Our empirical results in the Philippines shows the effects of preference change on …

Growth, inequality, and poverty are central elements of the development process. However the mutual effects and … framework we derive some fundamental relations between growth, inequality and poverty. In the empirical part we test for unit … long-run dynamics for income growth and changes in inequality and poverty in a panel of 114 developing countries and six …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

Economic growth is a driving force in reducing poverty, but experience has shown that good governance and pro …-poor choices are vitally important in the process of alleviating poverty. This paper explores linkages between governance and pro … the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality …

Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005–2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008—from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing the … percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. <p> Poverty reduction was uneven …

Economic growth is a driving force in reducing poverty, but experience has shown that good governance and pro …-poor choices are vitally important in the process of alleviating poverty. This paper explores linkages between governance and pro … the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality …

The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015 …. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have … poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the …

This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in public spending, human capital … investment and other variables associated with changes in poverty. We find that higher minimum wages are associated with lower …

The recent revision of the World Bank’s global poverty estimates based on a new $1.25 (2005 PPP) poverty line …. In the short term, less weight should be given to the Bank’s poverty estimates in monitoring the first MDG. In the longer … requires global institutional coordination. Until it is implemented, the crisis in the monitoring of global consumption poverty …