How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

"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 …

and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse … development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we …

countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …

, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …

In this paper, we have two main objectives: to investigate the links between globalization and poverty observed in … Zambia during the 1990s, and to explore the poverty impacts of non-traditional export growth. We look at consumption and …

We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …, critics tend to refer more to changes in absolute inequality, and income polarization, rather than the inequality measures …