foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the … panel data of 10 Asian developing countries. In terms of the dependent variables, this paper sets three poverty indicators …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …

This paper aims to develop a relational geographical interpretation of energy poverty in the post-socialist states of … Skopje. I argue that energy poverty is produced by the relationships among three sets of contingencies: the socio … may become imprisoned in particular types of socio-spatial arrangements that contribute to the emergence of poverty …

citizens. Each living group in a nation is identified as a Household. Poverty is the inability to buy the Basic Needs by a … and eradicate the Poor category. This is a direct bottom level approach to eradicate poverty. Induction of savings through …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

This paper empirically examines the effect of financial development on poverty for a sample of developing countries … development on the poor when poverty is measured by the headcount index or the poverty gap at the cut-off line of $2 day (absolute … poverty). This finding is robust to the choice of a more conservative poverty line based on $1.25 a day. However, there is …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … developing world, and develop a theory of change that links inputs to impacts on several welfare outcomes. Overall, we find that … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …