appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with … poverty reduction. …

This paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …