nutrition remains a problem in rural areas across Southeast Asia despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results reveal …Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia has not fully translated into reduction in malnutrition. Using a … poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we compare nutritional outcomes of children below five …

nutrition remains a problem in rural areas across Southeast Asia despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results reveal …Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia has not fully translated into reduction in malnutrition. Using a … poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we compare nutritional outcomes of children below five …

capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in … casts doubts on the view that international remittances may play a crucial role in reducing poverty in developing countries. …This study provides new empirical evidence on the impact of international remittances. Using data from the two most …

determinants of each type of poverty for the case of Mexico. It was found that 69 percent of total poverty is chronic and 31 …This paper uses panel data to decompose total poverty into its chronic and transient components and to estimate the … poverty are different from those explaining transient poverty. These results indicate that chronic poverty is an issue which …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … Agatha with respect to the harvest cycle of the main crops. The results are robust to placebo treatments, household migration …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …

to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …

poverty levels and a widening rural-urban gap. …This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985-99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the …