In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews … some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for … reducing poverty, taking into account the functional differences and overlap between the rural poor. Several policy options are …

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

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 …

poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in …We document the evolution of poverty and inequality across Indian states during the recent period of rapid growth (2004 …-09), and examine the role of growth and distribution in reducing poverty. Robust economic growth has been a major driver of …

The Union of the Comoros’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRGS) paper reports that the government⠅

for private enterprise and sectoral strategies; and poverty reduction and social protection programs. Economic growth in …

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …

) during 2004 in Albania. The NSSED established a multiyear plan to combat poverty and strengthen governance. The main …

poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …While many have celebrated India's accelerating economic growth, some have expressed concern about the distributional …