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. …

's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …