by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 …-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results reveal that causality nexus of poverty and remittances is bi-directional. We also … find that the causal impact of poverty reduction on remittance is stronger than the reverse impact. Indeed, despite of its …

trend in poverty headcount rate from 41.8% in 1996 to 30.9% in 2004 and 25.2% in 2011. This result is attributed to labour … conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

income distributions and national accounts GDP, we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality indices for … African countries for the period 1990-2011. Our findings are as follows. First, African poverty is falling rapidly. Second …, the African countries for which good inequality data exist are set to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) poverty …

of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and …

avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …