absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … 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. …

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars … scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the world's people is one of the most serious problems facing humankind … today. Unemployment (defined below) befalls about 200 million of the world's people - a sizeable number but small compared …

This paper investigates the determinants of the growth elasticity of poverty by using the internationally designed … poverty line, measured by the share of the population living below USD 1.25 per day. We identify the determinants of changes … in the poverty rate of countries using single and multiple OLS regressions as well as fixed effects. Empirical evidence …

-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

studies of the seventies and eighties under the auspices of OECD, NBER and World Bank. These studies played a critical role in … can come only from careful case studies of policy regimes of individual entries such as those of OECD, NBER and World Bank …

many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when … growth, and therefore poverty reduction through growth. This paper finds evidence of a concave relationship between …