poverty reduction. Indonesia is a country that has endured bad governance for a long period, but also has sustained … significant poverty reduction. Prior to the onset of the economic crisis in mid 1997, the problem of bad governance in Indonesia … governance on the poor is real, systematically affects many people, and undermines the efforts to reduce poverty in the country …

The objective of this study is to investigate the weak links in the processes for poverty reduction in Macedonia. We … investigate the weak links between the budget lines and the poverty-reduction programs, involvement of vulnerable categories of … people and researchers in the processes for poverty reduction. 27.1% of the Macedonian population lived below the poverty …

The paper discusses an alternative measure for poverty assessment - the Misery Index. An author develops an extended …

known about the ultimate impact of informal loans on poverty and inequality. If informal credit is an important means to … decrease poverty, the government may want to reconsider its policy focus. Although it is possible to stimulate the availability …, and subsequently assess its impact on poverty and inequality. By using fixed-effect regressions with instrumental …

poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation …, intermediate, bachelors and higher studies and finds evidence that poverty is greatest among the less literate households and … severity of poverty is more pronounced in rural areas. The variables that are negatively related with the probability of being …

This note makes two poins. First, that the impact of remittances on poverty depends on who sends the remittances. If … those who send it come from poorer households (semi-skilled and unskilled workers), its impact on poverty would be greater … terms of its overall impact on the economy and through this on poverty. …

have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines … with poverty, inequality and per capita GDP. Countries with more improvement in trade facilitation are more likely to have … lower poverty and inequality, and higher per capita GDP than other countries with less improvement in trade facilitation. …

most important factor behind the U.S. poverty. While this argument is understandable, the blame is misplaced. Using data … from the Current Population Survey, we show that between 1994 and 2008 the national poverty rate of immigrants fell three … times faster than that of natives (5.4 compared to 1.8 percentage points). The poverty rate of recent immigrants (those in …

The general perception is that high food prices in India have increased poverty and that trade reforms will further … worsen poverty. We compare Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures for various scenarios of grain price swings with and … opportunities for poverty alleviation. Global trade reform reinforces this effect for all rural population groups. An increase in …