particularly relevant to poverty reduction. At the limit, their estimates imply an income gap of more than 20 per cent between a …

Over the past two decades consumption inequality has risen within Laos, while absolute poverty incidence halved. The …

universal plague of poverty reduction in developing economies. Focusing on developing economies especially Ghana, and also … decentralization and its effects on poverty reduction from the optimist and pessimist views. The paper affirmed that fiscal … decentralization has the potential for poverty reduction when it is characterized by greater financial autonomy of the local units with …

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from … 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The … investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …