Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents a framework to quantify how much … initial conditions affect poverty reduction, given a level of "effort" (growth). The framework used in the analysis allows for … countries did perform better in reducing poverty in the last decade and the half (1995-2008), assuming equal initial conditions …