Future pensions: future poverty?

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Early teen marriage and future poverty.

Both early teen marriage and dropping out of high school have historically been associated with a variety of negative outcomes, including higher poverty rates throughout life. Are these negative outcomes due to preexisting differences, or do they represent the causal effect of marriage and schooling choices? To better understand the true personal and societal consequences, in this article, I us...

The Future of Poverty: Framing Uncertainty

Patterns of Potential Human Progress Volume 1: Reducing Global Poverty 72 How much leverage is available in reducing poverty globally and in specifi c regions and countries of the world? Another way of asking the same question is, how rapidly and substantially can we shift patterns of base case forecasts of poverty like those in Chapter 5? The proximate drivers (economic growth, population grow...

The Future of U . S . Poverty Measurement

Poverty alleviation: Aid and social pensions

Transaction costs” are commonly referred to in the recent literature on aid effectiveness. The shift to a new partnership aid paradigm (cf. the Paris Agenda) is grounded on the desire to render aid more effective, notably through reducing the high transaction costs generated by the project approach. Aid transaction costs, however, have neither been consistently defined nor measured. In this pap...