; formality ; poverty ; economic growth …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

between trade facilitation and poverty reduction in China. It discusses the impact of the trade facilitation practises in … poverty. The results show that a 1 per cent increase in port efficiency results in a 1.051 per cent decrease in the poverty …

central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

The authors introduce a simple model of public preferences on poverty assistance. Their focus is on the roles played by … institutional and media framing of poverty assistance in the ethnicization of welfare preferences. …

We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes … identify provision of information as a mechanism through which households use their connections to obtain the poverty … classification, suggesting that information campaigns may be an effective means of eliminating local level corruption in poverty …