This paper examines the precise links between foreign direct investment (henceforth, FDI) and poverty alleviation … international borders, therefore FDI reduces poverty only under certain circumstances. “Roll out the red carpet for foreign … more FDI, exploit it more efficiently and reduce poverty. Empirical analysis using panel data of 62 countries, from 1996 to …

policies, but at the same time poverty and inequality have remained high or have increased. Prospects are not encouraging for …

to 1996, and the available estimations suggested that two thirds of the population was poor. This high level of poverty … macroeconomic policies, poverty would have been much lower than observed. …

The study investigates the impact of trade liberalization on employment, its consequence to poverty reduction and how … trade openness affects economic development in Pakistan. Although, increase in poverty and unemployment is observed, this …

The relationship between financial development and poverty is one that has not been extensively explored in the … infant mortality as a proxy indicator of poverty, the results show that the relationship between financial development and … poverty. The result is important since it already controls for the effect that economic growth has on poverty reduction, given …

optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …

inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very … income, inequality and poverty over time, and to explain why they evolved in the way they did. We relate changes in …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

Poverty reduction has long been one of the political priorities of the European Union and its member states. Despite … the political declarations and measures applied, poverty is still a phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of about 70 … million Europeans. Moreover, trends in poverty incidence show how poverty risks are sensitive to overall socio …