poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …

engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …

that remittances and migration act as a shock-coping mechanism, especially in the presence of natural shocks. Remittance …This paper provides an overview of the characteristics of migrant households and analyses the effects of migration in …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

for an understanding of the relationship between caste and gender, and for the targeting of anti-poverty programmes. …

of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …