in Kazakhstan. We find that, despite the rapid and substantial reduction in poverty in the country since the turn of the …Given the lack of longitudinal data for Central Asia, research on poverty has largely ignored the time dimension. This … study uses panel data constructed from the rotating cross-sectional Kazakhstan Household Budget Survey for the 2001 …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

The transmigration program in Gorontalo Province plays an important role in poverty reduction. The districts of …-Likert scale. The objectives of this research are: (1) to measure the multidimensional poverty level of transmigrant and … local households, (2) to determine the impact of the transmigration program on poverty reduction and (3) to identify the …

Poverty reduction has become a top goal in the socio-economic development strategies of countries and a topic of … interest for researchers. A number of prior empirical studies have identified the importance of financial inclusion to poverty … reduction. However, most of these studies assess the effect of financial inclusion on income poverty reduction. There are …

How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …