"Pro-poor" tourism is arguably one of the best green options for addressing LDC poverty, employment and economic …/multiplier effects, employment-generating and poverty alleviation capacities, opportunities for export "test marketing" of new products … expanding tourism will significantly increase poverty alleviation or local employment generation: the necessary mechanisms must …

priorities of export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy". It is well-known that Bangladesh is under … strong pressure to diversify its exports, to generate new employment (especially in rural areas), and to respond to critical … diversification in services. The most obvious current impediments are inadequate infrastructure, lack of investment and (typically …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

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 …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with …