This article discusses the impact of structural adjustment on poverty and inequality and overall social welfare in … Pakistan over the adjustment decade (1988–99) based on household surveys. It provides an indepth analysis of poverty during … incidence of poverty has increased and the real wages of both skilled and unskilled labour fell sharply. Overall, the likely …

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 …

the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of …Ghana has seen notable poverty reduction alongside improvements in school participation since 1991. This paper examines … household welfare and that higher levels of education have relatively larger and increasing benefits. Improvements are observed …

-laden countries. The link between remittances and expenditure patterns has become an important nexus in the global welfare development … poverty reduction. Remittances impact on households’ welfare shows that this financial inflow has been used for consumer … investment expenditures the households spend remittances on. This study examines the impact of remittances on welfare development …

expenditure. This article analyses the evolution of health expenditure, poverty indicators and economic development in American … development will have on poverty eradication and health improvement for the next years. Both national policies and international …Two of the main problems of many Latin American countries are poverty and low levels of expenditure on health. In many …