...Ishfaq Nazir Khanday; Md. Tarique; Inayat Ullah Wani; Muzffar Hussain Dar Purpose The primary objective of the paper is to examine the asymmetric Cointegration and asymmetric causality between financial development and poverty alleviation on annual data in Indian context over the period from 1980...

...Olumide Olusegun Olaoye Purpose The paper investigates the prevalence of extreme poverty in a panel of 39 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 2000–2018 while accounting for spillover effects. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts the recently developed spatial dependence...

...Taiwon Ha Purpose In response to the pandemic, the Korean government introduced fiscal measures: including the Emergency Disaster Relief Funds which is the first-ever universal benefit in Korea. This paper identifies the effects of the measures on poverty, household income and household...

...Sridevi Yerrabati Purpose With self-employment providing earning opportunities to many working poor in developing countries, the study examines its role in alleviating poverty. Design/methodology/approach A five-year average of 56 developing countries from 1995–2019 is used. The empirical...

...Russ D. Kashian; Tracy Buchman; Robert Drago Purpose The study aims to analyze the roles of poverty and African American status in terms of vulnerability to tornado damages and barriers to recovery afterward. Design/methodology/approach Using five decades of county-level data on tornadoes...

...Iftikhar Khan; Ismail Khan; Aziz Ullah Sayal; Muhammad Zubair Khan Purpose The aim of the study is to examine the impact of financial inclusion on poverty, income inequality and financial stability using panel data of 54 African countries. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective...

...Segun Thompson Bolarinwa; Abiodun Adewale Adegboye; Xuan Vinh Vo Purpose The paper examines whether there is a threshold between financial development and poverty in African economies. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts the innovative dynamic panel threshold model of Seo and Shin...

...Eric Akobeng Purpose This paper examines the relationship between foreign aid, institutional democracy and poverty. The paper explores the direct effect of foreign aid on poverty and quantifies the facilitating role of democracy in harnessing foreign aid for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa...

... with a significant number of households (over 56,000 individuals) to analyze the impacts of tax policies on poverty and income inequality of Malaysian. Findings Simulation results show that, under the balanced budget condition, personal and corporate income tax reductions increase economic growth, household...

..., which are subject to restriction that (Equation 3) , that is: (Equation 4) (Equation 5) we can get our welfare or aggregate function: (Equation 6) Professor Esfandiar Maasoumi can be contacted at: esfandiar.maasoumi@emory.edu © Company 2015 China Poverty...

... individuals in the upper part of income distribution. Another contribution was that of Batuo et al. (2010) in a study restricted to African countries, strongly arguing that its impact on poverty and income distribution has been negative The goal of financial reforms is to give an impetus...

... to decompose inequality by population subgroups and income sources. Indunil De Silva can be contacted at: siudesilva@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Decomposition Inequality Poverty Sri Lanka Gini index Shapley value Spatial In recent years we have seen...

...Nicholas Apergis; Oguzhan Dincer; James E. Payne Purpose This study seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Is there a relationship between poverty and income inequality in the short run/long run? Is the relationship unidirectional from income inequality to poverty as the previous...

...Nicholas M. Odhiambo Purpose The paper seeks to examine the inter‐temporal causal relationship between financial development and poverty reduction in Kenya during the period 1968‐2006. The study attempts to answer one critical question: is financial development in Kenya a spur to poverty reduction...

...Minh Quang Dao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the determinants of rural and national poverty, of income distribution, and of agricultural growth in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach Data for all variables are from the 2008 World Development Report...

... in industrialized countries. Maryke Dessing can be contacted at: mdessing@vtx.ch © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Labour market poverty Women workers Industrialized economies The labor supply schedule of families has been documented to be frequently forward falling in poorer...

...Minh Quang Dao Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of the components of human capital on the extent of poverty and income distribution in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach Data for all variables are from the World Development Report, 2006 and 2007. The least...

... at: augendra@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Social capital Debts Labour Poverty India Giving loans is risky as labourers can run away with the money and can refuse to migrate with the middleman. To avoid such a risk, the latter recruits labourers from his family...

... constraint, therefore rejoining our conclusions. The global maximum was identified by assuming that employers preferred to pay lower wages for the same quantity of labor. Moreover, firms were assumed to face a perfectly competitive market for their output. Other studies also concluded that a poverty trap...

...Minh Quang Dao This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in developing countries. Using data from a sample of 32 developing countries we are able to show that income redistribution in favor of the poorest 10 percent of the population, improving the productivity...