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 …

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 …

characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in … the last two decades, but poverty reduction has slowed in recent years. Although available indicators sometimes give … conflicting signals on distributional shifts, people in the middle of the income distribution have received the most benefit …

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. …

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 … increase spending on health, education, and social safetynets; labor market reforms to boost the labor share of total income …

and income distribution outcomes, using data over three decades. Country distributions are calibrated by combining PPP GDP … per capita and income distribution from survey data. We apply the microeconomic concept of a social mobility function at … dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was …

This paper describes the nature and evolution of poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1992. It highlights the potential … and welfare. The headcount measure of poverty in Nigeria declined from 43 percent to 34 percent between 1985 and 1992 …. Decomposing the factors causing the reduction in poverty shows that the overall decline of 9 percentage point was the net result …

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 …

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 … poverty reduction. …