Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality … outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the …

poverty in developing countries. There is relatively little empirical evidence addressing this question directly, but a lot of … key areas: economic growth and stability; households and markets; wages and employment and government revenue. Within this … relationship between trade liberalisation and poverty, so that the picture is much less negative than is often suggested in popular …

intended to protect; (iii) decrease the employment probability of the young, inexperienced, less educated, and women laborers …; and (iv) tend to ironically reduce average income and raise household poverty rate. These results illustrate how rapid …