'The main view expressed in the paper is that Foreign Direct Investments are not a panacea for poverty reduction in all countries.'

This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction with special focus on the role of employment in shaping the linkage. The empirical basis of the analysis consists of two recent sets of studies: nine UNDP country case studies on “Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction” (hereafter referred to as the UNDP case studies) and seven ILO/SIDA studies on “Growth-Employment-Poverty Nexus” (hereafter referred to as the ILO/SIDA studies).

While acknowledging the strategic importance of industrial competitiveness in the national vision of development and poverty reduction, Governments of developing countries often do not have at their disposal an adequate framework of analysis – unavailable information, lack of detailed knowledge and analytical tools, etc. – to gain maximum advantage for decision-making purposes. This report attempts to fill those gaps.

"Along the second half of 2007, the Ministry
of Social Development and Fight against
Hunger took part in three technical missions
to Ghana to give assistance to the newest
and most significant Social Protection
Programme in this African country: the
Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP).
Ghana designed its National Social
Protection Strategy focusing on LEAP, which
is based on the Growth and Poverty
Reduction Strategy II (GPRS II) of the country."
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Reducing poverty requires states to maintain economic growth and, importantly, to increase investments in the social sector. Government debt can, however, be a heavy burden. In India, such debt may stop several states from reaching their Millennium Development targets for poverty reduction. Source: Id21

"In 1961, the United States Department of Agriculture published an Economy Food Plan carefully designed “as a nutritionally
adequate diet for short-term or emergency use” for poor people.
This diet was updated and later re-branded as the Thrifty Food Plan. The lowest cost stated for this minimal diet was $80.40 per person per month in 1999.
The relevant equivalent of the World Bank’s $1 a day poverty line is $37.75 per person per month in 1999, and $49 today.
This is clearly not enoug more...

"The findings of this project reveal that gender influences migration, remittances and their relationship to local rural development in several ways. First of all, gender norms and sex-segregated labour markets have traditionally promoted and prioritized Filipino
women’s migration to Italy over the migration of their male counterparts. Female migration has been propelled by a care crisis in developed countries, such as Italy, which has opened up employment opportunities specifically for wome more...

"Some years ago a consensus emerged in the development community on the idea of an international poverty line of around $1 a day at purchasing power parity. This became the focus of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which calls for halving the 1990 $1 a day poverty rate by 2015.
In a recent IPC One Pager, “ Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?”, Sanjay Reddy asserts that this poverty line is “arbitrary” and “unreliable.” He feels that the line is too low to more...

"What is the level of income poverty in Latin America and has it been decreasing? Are current estimates reliable?
The most influential approach to gauging income poverty regionally as well as globally uses the World Bank’s international poverty lines of ‘one-dollar-a-day’ and ‘two-dollars-a-day’ per person. The Bank uses ‘purchasing power parity’ (PPP) factors to translate these international lines into local currencies". Reddy, S. (2008) International Poverty Centre (IPC): Brazil more...