The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these … processes in the coming decades. Due to their initial poverty, and their relatively high dependence on environmental capital for …. Economic growth is essential for any large-scale poverty reduction. Green growth, a growth process that is sensitive to …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become …