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

trend in poverty headcount rate from 41.8% in 1996 to 30.9% in 2004 and 25.2% in 2011. This result is attributed to labour … conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However …

During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality …

This paper analyzes which institutional features contribute to poverty reduction when countries democratize. For this … estimates to estimate average treatment effects of democratization on poverty reduction and estimates this separately for …, some of its features contribute to poverty reduction and some do not. Especially, the hypothesis that stronger institutions …

In the present study, our primary concern is to examine the effects of poverty on economic development across the … Brazilian States from 1980 to 2015. Many studies assess the effects of economic growth and economic development on poverty … incidence, but there is almost no one trying to measure the impact of poverty prevalence on economic development. The results of …

The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

incidence of destitution among poor older people by 95 per cent. In Chile TFPs considerably improved their poverty reduction …, TFPs have generally been effective in reducing poverty and indigence. In Brazil rural social assistance pensions cut the …