This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth …' wages and, thus, poverty alleviation. Then it presents cross-country empirical evidence that analyzes first, the … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …

growing economy to fall into a social poverty trap. We argue that this risk is particularly relevant for advanced societies ….-- social capital ; self-protection choices ; social poverty traps …