This paper examines the indirect linkages among foreign direct investment (henceforth, FDI) and poverty reduction … that FDI inflows are able to contribute to higher growth and employment in poor countries? I argue yes. Behavior of FDI … therefore FDI can contribute to higher growth and employment in poor countries but only under certain circumstances, “Roll out …

Poverty reduction has long been one of the political priorities of the European Union and its member states. Despite … the political declarations and measures applied, poverty is still a phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of about 70 … million Europeans. Moreover, trends in poverty incidence show how poverty risks are sensitive to overall socio …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country …'s paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that …

on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

Despite extensive research, the estimates of changes in employment are heter-ogeneous in different conditions of … employment elasticity compared to its values in economies with a stable development trend. Based on this, we formulate the …

changes on employment, prices, consumption, and poverty. …

is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …

In this paper we revisit the debate on the role of industrialisation in employment generation and poverty reduction in … substitution through protection and state intervention has outlived its usefulness and growth prospects and poverty alleviation … though employment generation are greatly enhanced by industrialization through greater integration into the international …

This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit … supply constraints to the household's graduation from poverty. These constraints are difficult to overcome in a traditional … women's trajectory of economic success. -- microcredit ; poverty reduction ; labour market ; intra-household decision-making …

Okun's law. However, in transition and emerging markets economies' context, the output-employment nexus has a much more … transition) countries to find out a discrepancy between the output and employment growth. Therefore, the employment elasticity … satisfactory employment growth, which is commonly referred to as a "jobless growth" hypothesis. Accordingly, this paper attempts to …