Like most developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean suffers from a high degree of economic volatility -volatility that is much greater than in industrial economies. The manifestations of this...
A majority of the poor in Indonesia come from agricultural and self-employed households. Moreover, the largest single contribution to poverty reduction between 1990 and 1993 came from within-sector welfare...
This paper quantifies both the direct and opportunity costs of primary and secondary schooling, using data from Tanzania. It attempts to clarify how important opportunity costs are to the full private...