It has been widely accepted that economic globalization is inevitable, and that globalization plays an increasingly important role in determining relative economic growth among countries. Considerable studies have addressed that increased in globalization or trade liberalization is directly or...

Purpose - Existence of working poverty reduces the effectiveness of the strategy of "increasing employment to reduce poverty". Developed countries are already concerned about it but insufficient attention has been made by developing countries. Focusing on developing countries this study...

A widely held view in the economic literature is that productivity growth is an important pathway through which trade liberalisation may alleviate poverty. This paper explores the link between trade openness, agricultural productivity growth and poverty reduction in a panel of Mediterranean...

The study aimed to determine the extent of microfinance services on poverty alleviation in Arakan Valley Complex particularly Arakan, Antipas & Pres. Roxas Municipality, North Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines. The respondents were 200 clientele of the two microfinance lending institution namely...

Capital theory has taken a new turn with the theoretical discovery that wage curves tend to get linear in random systems, the larger they are, and with the confirmation that empirical wage curves do not deviate a great deal from linearity. The present chapter adds to these results by arguing...

The issues of quality, cost of poor quality and factors affecting quality are crucial to maintaining a competitiveness regarding to business activities. Use of software applications and computer simulation enables more effective quality management. Simulation tools offer incorporating the...

This study presents a new methodology for a two-dimesional poverty measure for Turkey taking into account necessary consumption as well as the required household production neded to achieve a minium living standard. Official poverty lines in Turkey and other countries ignore the fact that unpaid...

This paper evaluates the contribution of agricultural growth to poverty reduction in the D.R.Congo over theprojection period 2013 - 2020. It raises questions over the investment options to sustain such a growth effort. We usea recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model combined with...

Poverty traps occurs when agents fail to coordinate their actions to achieve the optimal allocation of resources. It is argued that this phenomenon makes economic convergence impossible and keeps agents in a poverty trap from which they cannot escape unless a massive and coordinated industrial...