This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

Whilst structurally poor households fall below the income and asset poverty line, stochastically poor households fall … below the income poverty line but above the asset poverty line. This distinction suggests different challenges for the … households in dealing with shocks and building the resilience to make a lasting escape from poverty. Accordingly, we examine the …

-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in … urbanization rate induces 0.04 and 0.05 (0.07 and 0.09) percentage points decrease in the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty Gap …

) on poverty in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). In achieving this, a balanced panel of 30 SSA countries from 1996 to 2018 was … incidence and intensity of poverty. (2) the impact of FDI is contingent on the absorptive capacity of the host country. The … study further reveals that FDI will alleviate poverty conditions if interacted with human capital and institutional quality …

The paper examines the effect of trade openness on poverty using the panel Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL …-income poverty; in this paper, non-income poverty is measured by the human development index since this measure looks at poverty …-income poverty trade openness model. The study results assist SADC governments and policymakers in addressing poverty reduction …