This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth …, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that … challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …-effective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to more …

income inequality to decline. The conjoined parameters retard growth's inequality-enhancing effect and thus facilitate long …Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on … the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to … address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it …

different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle …