This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

The goal of the welfare state is the redistribution of income in order to reduce poverty and reduce inequality. Income … inequality and relative poverty are often cited as major policy concerns, and are tracked by economists. Economists and policy … makers also value measures of absolute poverty as it more closely tracks the actual well being of the poor. Some studies have …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …