This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to reduce poverty and unemployment in … these approaches to the broader literature on poverty reduction, economic development, politics, and the reform of …

The history of development shows convincingly that no country has substantially reduced poverty without massively … create income for the poor; they are resources for poverty reduction. With price adjustments, it becomes possible for those … who live below the poverty line, nominally less than $1 a day, to afford the products andservices and therefore mitigating …

for poverty reduction. We also identify some conditions of the labor market which are associated with employment intensive … matter for poverty reduction, the sectoral pattern of employment growth and productivity growth is important. While … employment intensive growth in the secondary sector appears to be associated with decreases in poverty, employment intensive …

The paper discusses the meaning and measurement of pro-poor growth and also reviews evidence of pro-poor growth (or the …

cross-nationally. Typically, researchers have relied upon the tenets of classical measurement theory (CT) using confirmatory …-national applicability? Our research seeks to address these issues and the cross-national measurement applicability of multi … demonstrate the usefulness of GT to cross-national multi-dimensional measurement. …