countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries … structural malaise that traps them in a vicious circle of poverty. They advocate the radical reshaping of the international …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the population and reduce poverty. The poverty head count index is ….6 percentage point reduction due to growth and a 1.2 percentage point increase due to inequality change.Since poverty is most … better business environment and infrastructure. The country needs a new trading arrangement with the European Union. Poverty …

This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposedto the forces of … globalization to test whether minimum wages are an effective poverty reduction tool in this environment. We find that minimum wage …