"Recent estimates showing increase in the incidence of poverty in Uganda has kindled interest in understanding the … factors that cause changes in poverty, as the reversal of the positive trend in the 1990s threatens the government's poverty … eradication plan of reducing poverty to a level below 28% by 2014. Using a household and community panel dataset, this paper …

on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …

relates asset paths to initial endowments, we test the hypothesis of wealth divergence and the existence of asset poverty …

. Agricultural growth, a critical driver in poverty reducing growth in many poor agrarian economies in the past, faces many … poverty reduction) to different government spending in India over the last forty years. The results reject the alternate … poverty reduction in the early stages of agricultural transformation. The results show initially high but then declining …

poverty traps from which recovery is not possible? In an effort to answer these questions, this paper analyses the asset … poverty traps and that they tend to militate against any tendency of the poor to catch up with wealthier households. Policy …