This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in … initial poverty incidences decline over time. Our analysis also finds initial poverty as having little direct effect on growth … in LDCs, except in SSA where higher initial poverty is associated with faster growth …

dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock … analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately understood as a dynamic, with the majority of people flowing in and out … of poverty for short durations. Distinguishing between structural and transitory poverty gives rise to a focus on the …

increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first …We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty; whereas an adverse direct effect of initial poverty on growth – which is recognized as …The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits …

Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …

only slightly and this is attributed to sluggish labour market growth and low quality of education. We find that the middle …