, including data on the level of poverty and inequality in Jordan. Part 2 discusses the challenges and opportunities facing …

After a decade implementing the Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) for the period 2001-2010, Comprehensive Poverty … poverty, rising inequality, and climate changes that can slow down the progress of MDGs. These report documents the successes …

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …

which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure … (poverty). Hence, economic freedom does not stop the wealthy from growing wealthier, but at the same time provides for … conditions that mitigate poverty. The findings broadly show that, despite the substantially documented negative incidences of …

For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …

. The results show differences in human capital estimations on wages and factors related to labor poverty when missing … values of earnings are ignored. Differences are acute when measuring labor poverty. …