would meaningfully increase economic security for lower-income individuals, reduce poverty and near-poverty, and shrink gaps …

would meaningfully increase economic security for lower-income individuals, reduce poverty and near-poverty, and shrink gaps …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across …

-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …

/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other … welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …

We examine whether there is an inequality of opportunity to achieve higher education, partially explained by … poverty is associated with reduced university aspirations from the perspective of the youth and their mother. Further, poverty … depth matters less than incidence. In terms of magnitude, poverty contributes to about 10-15 percent of the observed …

be met. There are exceptions-education has expanded rapidly, although questions are raised about quality, and some … several of the goals. But many countries, most especially in Africa, will not. The projections show that poverty will become … more heavily concentrated in Africa in both relative and absolute terms. In addition, whilst urban poverty will increase …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …