the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … diminishing work is associated with a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a … large role in this relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …

This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …