Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April … recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our baseline case suggests that globally the number of people … Development. The fallout from the pandemic will also exacerbate the geographic concentration of poverty, as exemplified by the …

This paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity …, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty. We conclude there could be increases in … poverty of a substantial magnitude-up to 400 million new poor living under the $1.90 poverty line, over 500 million new poor …

Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with …

Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and …