household used as startup capital or as additional capital for microenterprise. The microenterprise may be run individually or … impacts on labor supply, but imprecisely estimated null impacts on household income, expenditure, savings, and capital … household welfare. These include a substantial business closure rate, lack of participation among group members in business …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …