inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The …

national currencies using either the 2005 or 2011 level; in the medium term, we argue for global poverty measurement based on … internationally coordinated national poverty measurement. … poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as … measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its aggregation over various age groups. The trends highlight a … significant reduction in poverty among the elderly and a gradual increase in poverty among children and working age individuals …

The development of non-contributory pension program as institutions for poverty and inequality reduction in Brazil …