that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary … poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of … corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate …

This paper examines Uganda's progress on poverty reduction when poverty is measured in multiple dimensions. In … particular, I consider poverty measures that are defined across household expenditures per capita or household assets, children …'s health status, and in some cases, mother's literacy. The comparisons are robust to the choice of poverty line, poverty …

How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the challenges of independence -- Estimating poverty and inequality …, poverty and distribution in the early twenty-first century -- Government policy interventions -- What have we learned … time. It examines the outcomes in the context of debates about economic growth, inequality and poverty alleviation which …

poverty. Entrepreneurship programs provide business training and access to finance, advisory, and networking services with the … aim of boosting workers' earnings and reducing poverty. Programs vary in design, which can affect their impact on outcomes …

contemporary microfinance, as well as reconstructing the experience of those living in poverty in a range of social, economic and …

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …