Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a … simple urban model illustrates that in closed economies, agricultural prosperity leads to more urbanization but that in an … open economy, urbanization increases with agricultural desperation. The challenge of developing world mega-cities is that …

of the ordinances on employment and poverty rates in these cities. Our findings indicate that living wage ordinances …. Finally, our estimates of the effects of living wages on poverty rates indicate that living wage ordinances may help to … achieve modest reductions in urban poverty …

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the … into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1 …) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and …

matched March CPS surveys, focusing on the effectiveness of minimum wages in reducing poverty. The results show that over a … one-to-two year period, minimum wages increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability … that previously non-poor families fall into poverty. The estimated increase in the number of non-poor families that fall …

This paper investigates monetary policy's influence on poverty and inequality in both the short run and the long run … stable aggregate demand growth are associated with improved well-being of the poor in the long run. Both the short-run and …

inequality which resulted, their activity had long lingering effects. More study is needed to identify all of the mechanisms at … work, but the evidence from the colonies in the Americas suggests that it was those that began with extreme inequality and … opportunities and generated lower rates of public investment in schools and other infrastructure considered conducive to growth …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its … trade's contribution to inequality. The paper concludes with a survey of evidence on several policies that could mitigate …