protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors … to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million …). To achieve more and better employment (where “better” depends on such factors as rate of pay, job security, employment …

services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and …

services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and …

growth on poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but I find no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment … lending are counter-cyclical, but there is no evidence that the cyclical component of those policy variables affects poverty …

I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of … poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line …, converted using purchasing power parity exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the …

of incidence of poverty in the long-run. The conjugate parameters, in post-simulation scenario following trade …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

The link between household poverty and child labor is much stronger in Pakistan than in Peru. Providing good schools in … hours and poverty and a negative association between child schooling and poverty. Both hypotheses are confirmed using … Pakistani data but not using Peruvian data. What explains these divergent results? The link between household poverty and child …