-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post … poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions …

Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

A key way for the world's poor - nearly half of humanity - to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of … to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard but working poor. Two key policy planks in the fight against … poverty should be: raising the returns to self-employment and creating more opportunities to move from selfemployment into …

Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less …

poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial …

future economic growth. In contrast, low income and absolute poverty work both as push-factors and as credit constraints, so … that people may want to leave, but few can afford to migrate when poverty is high. We test our hypotheses using new data on … poverty, using a migration gravity model with a spatial specification. Controlling for both source and destination income …