countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …

Following the adoption by the international community of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach, which … poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of different policy reforms being considered by the low income countries. This paper … suggested framework could be utilized to investigate the poverty/income distributional implications of introducing a value …