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 …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

of public expenditures and taxes. Generally, Mauritius enjoys an even income distribution and low rates of poverty … is the main contributor to inequality in Mauritius. Social protection expenditures reduce poverty and inequality, but …, significant further progress in poverty alleviation could be achieved. …

Poverty and unemployment remained high in Botswana. The shortcomings of the labor market policies are responsible for a …

challenges remain in accelerating economic reforms and reducing poverty. Real economic growth accelerated from almost 4½ in 2010 …

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. …

poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries … economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects … of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution … of growth and poverty reduction. Trade openness has important positive spillovers on other aspects of reform, however, so …

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. …