The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

concentration of black poverty during the 1970s. Using a special tabulation of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics that appended … of race and class. We found little support for the view that black poverty concentration rose because middle class blacks … class whites, and the net movement into poverty of blacks living in segregated areas. …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

Using data from the NLSY97, we construct two measures of poverty using the official definition and The National … Research Council (NRC) definition. We estimate the two poverty rates for 1996 for youths 12-16 as 17.9 (official) and 23.4 (NRC …), and document the discrepancies between youths considered in poverty under the two measures. We also explore the influence …

Despite nearly three decades of revolutionary government rule in Iran poverty and inequality remain the central issues … in the 2005 presidential election, has been widely attributed to rising poverty and inequity. In this paper I use … household survey data to describe the trends in poverty and inequality for the last three decades. The evidence shows that …

significantly reduce poverty and unemployment. Growth averaged 3 percent over the last decade. It has been volatile because of the …

This paper reviews Mongolia’s Economic Growth Support Poverty Reduction Strategy (EGSPRS) Implementation Progress …

poverty of nations. Additionally, we find support for policies aimed at reducing capital barriers as a means to reduce child …

This paper presents a general framework for characterizing the optimal pattern of subsidies for poverty alleviation …