poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …

This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis … that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty … poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps …

Poor people are trapped in a vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty. This study critically reviews existing … literature to explore why long-lasting poverty exists despite various initiatives taken by national and international development … (education & skills) is one of the most important factors that facilitate the intergenerational transmission of poverty in …

an otherwise similar household by 17%. We show that accounting for the additional costs of disability increases poverty … at both the extensive and intensive margin; the poverty rate amongst households with disabled members increases from 18 …% to 34%, and poor households with disabled members fall 7% below the poverty line on average, compared to 3% when the cost …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post … poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …