Building on the earlier work, this paper provides an updated review of the private tutoring phenomenon in Vietnam in …

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …

slower than that within manufacturing. The paper also finds that poverty rates are not converging across departments. The … limited impact of labor productivity convergence on poverty could be tied to the facts that not all sectors are experiencing …

. Combining income data from poverty maps, administrative records on crime and violence, and public expenditures data at the …

We are not seeing faster progress against poverty amongst the poorest developing countries. Yet this is implied by … for 100 developing countries reveals an adverse effect on consumption growth of high initial poverty incidence at a given … initial mean. A high incidence of poverty also entails a lower subsequent rate of progress against poverty at any given growth …

In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and … vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during … the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional …

food away from home. A household survey experiment was implemented in Hanoi, Vietnam, to test these different methods … considered -- including asking about consumption in one line (the existing practice in Vietnam) or asking each individual about … in a survey. Although limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the …