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 … poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in …

Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus … – a measure of growth in average income “corrected†for the equity impact—ranges from about 1 to about 8 …

objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. … 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 …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have … how the benefits of economic expansion were shared across the income distribution over the last two decades using …

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 …

This paper discusses key findings of the Sixth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and …

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 …