’s cognitive and educational attainment is not obvious: on the one hand, children may benefit from higher levels of family income …

not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults’ employment, income …

This paper assesses the impact of certain social factors on income inequalities in the EU. We applied Panel Estimated … historical income inequality and its current dimensions is stronger in developing than in developed countries. We also found a … higher capacity of social expenditure to reduce income inequality in developed countries, and a positive relationship between …

Do minimum wage policies reduce poverty in developing countries? It depends. Raising the minimum wage could increase or … decrease poverty, depending on labor market characteristics. Minimum wages target formal sector workers—a minority of workers … in most developing countries—many of whom do not live in poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty …

A key way for the world’s poor—nearly half of humanity—to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of the … enough to escape poverty, they are working hard but working poor. Two key policy planks in the fight against global poverty …

Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …