. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household …

-war levels; reducing poverty from 69 to 54 percent; growing the economy by 8 percent annually between 1996 and 2003; expanding … poor, infrastructure is inadequate, there are serious unmet education and health needs, and poverty rates remain high. This … Memorandum examines the growth-poverty linkage, using a wide variety of data sources, including the recently completed national …

countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances …' remittances on economic growth and poverty in 21 Latin American countries. The study uses annual data covering all Latin American … addition, we estimate the short-run and long-run effects of workers' remittances on economic growth and poverty on individual …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …