-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the most important factors explaining income inequality are location … SMEs, including in rural areas. Not surprisingly, given the argued nexus between China’s growth strategy and inequality …This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …

outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …

This Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN) highlights the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper–Country Development Strategy … experience from the National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS). This JSAN provides advice on key priorities for strengthening the … strategy and promoting the effective implementation of CDS. It reviews poverty trends, macroeconomic and sectoral policies in …

The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reports that consistent implementation of sound … macroeconomic policies is critical to the attainment of poverty reduction objectives. At the central level, the authorities … capacity at the beginning, made a significant contribution to the preparation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy. …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth …, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that … challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve …

This paper describes the nature and evolution of poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1992. It highlights the potential … wealth of the Nigerian economy and examines how the economic policies pursued in the 1980s and 1990s impacted economic growth … and welfare. The headcount measure of poverty in Nigeria declined from 43 percent to 34 percent between 1985 and 1992 …

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 … made faster and more inclusive economic growth the primary goal of their development strategy. This paper aims to document …

This Joint Staff Advisory Note provides IMF staff advice on key priorities for strengthening Bangladesh’s poverty … that the strategic agenda of the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction (NSAPR), built on the policy triangle … of pro-poor growth, human development, and governance, is consistent with the challenge of accelerating growth and …

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 …

(PRSP–I). The PRSP–II pushes the poverty reduction agenda forward so as to meet the objective of raising economic growth …This Joint Staff Advisory Note reviews Senegal’s Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP–II), and provides …€“II, covering 2006–10, builds on lessons learned during the implementation of the 2003–05 Senegal Poverty Reduction Strategy …