and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse … development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we …

incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but … short lockdown. However, there was a striking decrease in income inequality outside the lockdown. There was a smaller … decrease in consumption inequality, likely due to consumption smoothing. Evidence supports two mechanisms for the decline in …

This paper investigates the impacts of macroeconomic activity and policy on the poverty population. It is shown that … both the poverty count and the income share of the lowest quintile of income recipients move significantly with the … structure. Special attention is given to changes in the poverty rate over the past decade and to prospective changes in the …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the …The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … poverty if we use other poverty lines. We find that various measures of global inequality have declined substantially and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 …

knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps, and price …

, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …, critics tend to refer more to changes in absolute inequality, and income polarization, rather than the inequality measures …