contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors …

The econometric literature has been unable to establish a robust association between foreign aid and growth and poverty … countries. The model quantifies three sources of poverty: (i) lack of access to international capital, (ii) low schooling and … high fertility (a poverty trap), and (iii) antigrowth domestic fiscal policy. We analyze policies designed to address each …

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala …-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty … estimates, the sign and magnitude of which vary with the bandwidth, the kernel, the number of datapoints, and across poverty …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India''s authorities have …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … and poverty …

Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity … analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using … different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that …

Poverty alleviation is typically addressed in financial programming through additive programs that target vulnerable … groups but without modifying the underlying stabilization and adjustment targets. Instead, this paper integrates the poverty … alleviation objective into the financial programming framework using a well-known poverty index. In consequence, the assessment of …

Recent studies on the relationship between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that …. Its results suggest that financial deepening could narrow income inequality and reduce poverty, and that stronger property …