Urban poverty
- Effects of Argentina’s social security reform on labor markets and poverty
- M.L. Alzua;H. Ruffo / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2011
- In 1994, Argentina introduced Pensions Reform and Unemployment Benefits as a major reform component to its social security system. This paper analyses the effect of introducing new individual accou...
- Reaching the MDGs: an international perspective
- J. Cockburn (ed);M. Valdivia (ed) / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2008
- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reached their half-way mark in 2007 amidst both disappointment and hope: although progress on the goals had been limited, particularly in the world’s p...
- Trade and poverty in the developing world
- J. Cockburn (ed);P. Giordano (ed) / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2008
- In spite of thirty years of trade reform, poverty rates in the developing world remain high. In particular, the degree of tariff liberalisation that has occurred during this time, on average, has n...
- Child survival, poverty and policy options from DHS surveys in Kenya: 1993-2003
- J. Kabubo-Mariara;M. Karienyeh;F. Mwangi / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2008
- Will Kenya achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on child survival by 2015? While child and infant mortality rates declined massively following Kenyan independence, progress since 19...
- Educational attainment, growth and poverty reduction within the MDG framework: simulations and costing for the Peruvian case
- G. Yamada;J. Castro;A. Beltran / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2008
- While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) comprise of a wide-ranging set of sectors and indicators, progress assessment exercises tend to avoid looking at the interactions across the various secto...
- Impact of a lower oil subsidy on Indonesian macroeconomic performance, agricultural sector and poverty incidences: a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis
- R. Oktaviani;D. B. Hakim;H. Siregar / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2007
- How are poor people around the world being affected by rising fuel prices? In the context of globalisation, poverty researchers are increasingly required to interpret the implications of internatio...
- Poverty targeting and impact of a governmental micro-credit program in Vietnam
- C. Nguyen Viet;M. Thu Pham;N. Pham Minh / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2007
- To alleviate the constraints faced by the poor in the credit market, the Vietnamese government has set up the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP). However, VBSP's microcredit programme with prefer...
- The causes of chronic and transient poverty and their implications for poverty reduction policy in rural China
- S. Li;P. Wang;X. Yue / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2007
- Is the Chinese government’s approach to alleviate poverty through raising general income levels appropriate for the context of rural China? To address the question, this paper focuses on two ...
- Transient and chronic rural household poverty: evidence from Kenya
- M. Milagu;M. Ayieko;M. Bundi / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2007
- This article serves as a toolkit for policy makers addressing transient and chronic poverty in Kenya. It urges that poverty targeting criteria must take into account household sizes, gender of hous...
- The urban informal sector and poverty: effects of trade reform and capital mobility in India
- S. Marjit;S. Kar / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2007
- According to conventional wisdom, economic reform is likely to reduce informal sector wages.This paper examines the contrary case of post-liberalisation India where real wages in the informal manufact...
